Patents and Designs Act 1907

Patents and Designs Act 1907[a]
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to consolidate the enactments relating to Patents for Inventions and the Registration of Designs and certain enactments relating to Trade Marks.
Citation7 Edw. 7. c. 29
Territorial extent United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent28 August 1907
Commencement1 January 1908[a]
Other legislation
AmendsSee § Repealed enactments
Repeals/revokesSee § Repealed enactments
Amended by
Status: Partially repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended
Text of the Patents and Designs Act 1907 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The Patents and Designs Act 1907 (7 Edw. 7. c. 29) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments relating to patents for inventions, the registration of designs, and certain enactments relating to trade marks. Its provisions substantively replaced the earlier Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 57).

The act was enacted on 31 December 1907, and it aimed to consolidate and amend the laws related to patents and designs in the UK. It laid down provisions related to the grant, registration, and protection of patents and industrial designs.[1][2] The act encouraged American firms to start manufacturing in the UK by allowing patents to be revoked if they weren't being utilized here.[3]

Provisions

Repealed enactments

Section 98 of the act repealed 9 enactments, listed in parts I, II and III of the second schedule to the act.[4]

Part I - as from the commencement of the act
Citation Short title Extent of repeal
46 & 47 Vict. c. 57 Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act 1883 The whole act, except subsections (5), (6), (7) of section 26, section 29, subsections (2), (3) of section 47, and section 48.
48 & 49 Vict. c. 63 Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks (Amendments) Act 1885 The whole act.
49 & 50 Vict. c. 37 Patents Act 1886 The whole act.
51 & 52 Vict. c. 50 Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act 1888 The whole act.
1 Edw. 7. c. 18 Patents Act 1901 The whole act.
2 Edw. 7. c. 34 Patents Act 1902 The whole act.
7 Edw. 7. c. 28 Patents and Designs (Amendment) Act 1907 The whole act.
Part II - as from the date when rules of the Supreme Court regulating the matters dealt with in those enactments come into operation
Citation Short title Extent of repeal
46 & 47 Vict. c. 57 Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act 1883 Subsections (5), (6), (7) of section 26 and section 29.
Part III - as from the date when rules under the act regulating the matters dealt with in those enactments come into operation
Citation Short title Extent of repeal
46 & 47 Vict. c. 57 Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act 1883 Subsections (2), (3) of section 47 and section 48.

Subsequent developments

Section 82 of the act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and part VI of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986, which came into force on 2 May 1986.[5]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Section 99.

References

  1. ↑ Patents and Designs Act 1907, as originally enacted
  2. ↑ Schuster, George (1909). "The Patents and Designs Act, 1907". The Economic Journal. 19 (76): 538–551. doi:10.2307/2221068. ISSN 0013-0133. JSTOR 2221068. S2CID 4058356.
  3. ↑ Dunning, John (13 July 2006). American Investment in British Manufacturing Industry. Routledge. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-134-66994-3.
  4. ↑ "Patents and Designs Act 1907", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, Edw7/7 c. 29
  5. ↑ "Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1986 c. 12
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