Practice notices
Practice notices announce changes to our practice, such as how we interpret a provision of the law, or how we handle applications.
These are our current practice notices:
- Patents Act 1977: Patentability of Mental Acts
- Patents Act 1977: Time periods defined in the Patents Rules 2007
- Japan earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011
- Patents Act 1977: Reinstatement of patent applications
- Patents Act 1977: Periods for response to first examination reports and timescales for further examination reports
- PCT(UK) Fast Track
- Patents Act 1977: Second medical use claims
- Patents Act 1977: Withdrawing patent applications with no rights outstanding
- Green Channel for patent applications
- Inventions involving human embryonic stem cells (3 February 2009)
- Patents Act 1977: Patentability of computer programs
- Patents Act 1977: Patentable subject matter (7 February 2008)
- Patents Act 1977: Patentable subject matter
- Patents Act 1977: Changes to procedure for dealing with foreshadowed divisional applications
- Patents Act 1977: Patentability of games
- Patent applications relating to methods of doing business
- Inventions involving human embryonic stem cells (April 2003)
- Applications to Amend the Specification of a Patent under Sections 27 and 75 of the Patents Act 1977