The Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) (No. 2)
Order 2000, No. 1560

Made 14th June 2000

Laid before Parliament 26th June 2000

Coming intoforce 14th July 2000

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of June 2000

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 90(1) and section 124(3) of the Patents Act 1977(a), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

1. This Order may be cited as the Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 14th July 2000.

2. The countries specified in the Schedule to this Order are convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977.

3. The Patents (Convention Countries) Order 1994(b) shall be amended by the insertion in Schedule 1 thereto of the countries specified in the Schedule to this Order in proper alphabetical order.

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Cambodia

Equatorial Guinea

Lao Peoples Democratic Republic

Oman

Sao Tome and Principe

This order, made pursuant to section 90(1) of the Patents Act 1977 with a view to the fulfilment of obligations under the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property ("the Paris Convention") (as revised at Stockholm in 1967) (Cm. 4431), declares Cambodia, Equatorial Guinea, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Oman and Sao Tome and Principe to be convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977. Section 5 of the Patents Act 1977 affords certain rights of priority to applicants for patents, and this Order extends these rights of priority to applications filed in those countries.