Telecommunications Act 1984
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the patentee or applicant for the patent or any person who derives
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title from him or from whom he derives title and any person other
than the Post Office shall be construed as referring to any licence,
assignment or agreement made, on or after 1st October 1969 and
before 1st October 1981, between any such persons.
(3) The reference in paragraph 9(1) of Schedule 5 to any licence,
assignment or agreement made, on or after the appointed day, between the patentee or applicant for the patent or any person who
derives title from him or from whom he derives title and any
person other than British Telecommunications shall be construed(a) as referring to any licence, assignment or agreement made,
on or after 1st October 1981 and before the transfer date,
between any such persons ; and
(b) as including a reference to any licence, assignment or agreement made, on or after the transfer date, between the
patentee or applicant for the patent or any person who
derives title from him or from whom he derives title and
any person other than the successor company.
(4) The excepted case stated in paragraph 9(3) of Schedule 5 shall
be construed as including the case where an agreement as to the
proportions in which any sum payable in relation to the use of the
invention should be divided was made before the transfer date under
that paragraph as originally enacted, or a determination as to those
proportions was made before that date under paragraph 10 of that
Schedule as originally enacted.
(5) The excepted case stated in paragraph 9(4) of Schedule 5 shall
be construed as including the case where an agreement as to the
recovery from the patentee of a part of the payments made under
section 46(3) of the Patents Act 1949 in respect of the use of the 1949 c. 87.
invention was made before the transfer date under that paragraph as
originally enacted, or a determination as to such recovery was made
before that date under paragraph 10 of that Schedule as originally
enacted.
(6) The reference in paragraph 9(4) of Schedule 5 to a notice given
before the appointed day to the Post Office in pursuance of paragraph
8 of Schedule 10 to the Post Office Act 1969 shall be construed as 1969 c. 48
including a reference to a notice given before the transfer date to
British Telecommunications in pursuance of the said paragraph 9(4)
as originally enacted.
8. The third reference in paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 5 to British
Telecommunications shall be construed as including a reference to
the successor company.
9. The reference in paragraph 14 of Schedule 5 to paragraph 13
of Schedule 10 to the Post Office Act 1969 shall be construed as
referring to the said paragraph 14 as originally enacted.
10. The excepted case stated in paragraph 16 of Schedule 5 shall
be construed as including the case where an agreement as to terms
for the use of the design was made before the transfer date under
that paragraph as originally enacted, or a determination of those
terms was made before that date under paragraph 20 of that Schedule
as originally enacted.
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