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Patents Amendment Act 1999, New Zealand

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Details Details Year of Version 1999 Dates Adopted: October 14, 1999 Type of Text Main IP Laws Subject Matter Patents (Inventions) Notes The Amendment Act clarified who is entitled to make an application under section 7(2) of the Patents Act 1953. The Act also substituted a new section 77 into the Act to provide that the Governor-General may by Order in Council declare that any entity specified in the order that is a party to the agreement or arrangement or to which the agreement or arrangement applies (whether a state, part of a state, a territory for whose international relations a state is responsible, a political union, an international organisation, or any other entity) is, for the purposes of all or any of the provisions of this Act, a convention country.'

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 NZ071: Patents, Act (Amendment), 14/10/1999, No. 119

Patents Amendment Act 1999

Public Act 1999 No 119 Date of assent 14 October 1999

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An Act to amend the Patents Act 1953

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Patents Amendment Act 1999, and is part of the Patents Act 1953 (“the principal Act”).

1 Persons entitled to make application

(1) Inserted words into s7(2) of principal Act.

(2) Subsection (1) is for the avoidance of doubt.

2 Orders in Council as to convention countries

(1) Substituted s77 of principal Act.

(1) Substituted definition in s2(1) of principal Act.

(2) Added s2(3) to principal Act.

(4) The substitution by subsection (1) of a new section 77 of the principal Act for the existing section does not affect any order made under the existing section; and any such order may be amended or revoked by an order made under the substituted section.

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IP/N/1/NZL/P/1/Add.2
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