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# The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificates) Regulations 2014

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2014 No. 2411
Patents
The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificates) Regulations 2014
Made
8th September 2014
Laid before Parliament
10th September 2014
Coming into force
1st October 2014
The Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to intellectual property (including both registered and unregistered rights).
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations under the powers conferred by that section as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to that Act.
The Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in that section and it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient for the reference to Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6th May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products to be construed as a reference to that instrument as amended from time to time.

## 1 Citation, commencement and extent {#regulation-1}

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificates) Regulations 2014.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st October 2014.
(3) These Regulations have the same extent as the Patents Act 1977, except that they do not extend to the Isle of Man.

## 2 Amendment of the Patents Act 1977 {#regulation-2}

(1) The Patents Act 1977 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 128B (supplementary protection certificates), in subsection (2)(a), for “Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 of 18th June 1992 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products” substitute “Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6th May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products”.
(3) In Schedule 4A (supplementary protection certificates)—
(a) in paragraph 7(a), for “Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 of 18th June 1992 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products” substitute “Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6th May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products”;
(b) after paragraph 7 insert—
Transitional provision
8. (1) A reference (express or implied) in this Act to the Medicinal Products Regulation, or a provision of it, is to be read as being or (subject to context) including a reference to the old Regulation, or the corresponding provision of the old Regulation, in relation to times, circumstances or purposes in relation to which the old Regulation, or that provision, had effect.
(2) Other than in relation to times, circumstances or purposes referred to in subparagraph (1), anything done, or having effect as if done, under (or for the purposes of or in reliance on) the old Regulation or a provision of the old Regulation and in force or effective immediately before 1st October 2014 (the day on which the Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificates) Regulations 2014 came into force) has effect on or after that date for the purposes of this Act as if done under (or for the purpose of or in reliance on) the Medicinal Products Regulation or the corresponding provision of it.
(3) In this paragraph “the old Regulation” means Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 of 18th June 1992 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products.