Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999

Public bill · Government · Presented

Updates Ireland’s patent rules to comply with World Trade Organisation intellectual-property standards and changes to the European Patent Convention. It revises rules on patent applications, foreign priority claims, European patent translations, imported products and compulsory licences, including when someone may use a patented invention without the owner’s permission.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to give effect to certain provisions of the agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights annexed to the agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation and to give further effect to the European Patent Convention and for those purposes to amend and extend the Patents Act, 1992, and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018