Patents (Ame1Ulment)
[No. 18 of 1980
as
(b) in the proviso to paragraph (a) of subsection (6) and in
subsections (7), (8), (9), (10), (11) and (12) by the
deletion of the words " Patents Tribunal" wherever
they occur and the substitution therefor of "High
Court ".
11. Section thirty-eight ofthe principal Act is amended-c(a) in
subsection (1) by the deletion of "Patents
Tribunal" and" such Tribunal" and tho substitution
therefor of "High Court" and "that Court", res
pectively;
(b) in subsection (2) by the deletion of "Patents
Tribunal" and the substitution therefor of " High
Court ".
Amendment
of sec~ion 38
12. Section forty of the principal Act is amended in sub Amendment
section (3) by the deletion of " Patents Tribunal" and the
of section 40
substitution therefor of" High Court".
13. Section forty-two of the principal Act is amended in
subsections (1) and (4) by the deletion of the words" Patents
Tribunal" wherever they occur and the substitution therefor
of " High Court ".
Amendment
of section 42
14. The principal Act is amended by the repeal of section
Repeal and
refplacto.men4t4
0 sec Ion
44. In any action for infringement of a patent or Amendment
any proceedings before the High Court for the rovocation of.
.
i t to th e provisions
. .
fspeClficatlOn
of a patent, t h a t co urt may, au bJec
0 with leave of
subsection (3) of section forty-three, allow the patentee to High Court
amend his complete specification in such manner and
subject to such terms as to costs, advertisement or other
wise as that court may think fit, and, if in any such
proceedings for revocation the High Court decides that
the patent is invalid, it may allow the specification to
be amended under this section instead of revoking the
patent.
fortyjour. and the substitution therefor of the following section:
15. Section forty-five of the principal Act is amended by the
deletion of" Court or the Patents Tribunal " and the substitu
tion therefor of" High Court".
Amendment
of section 45
16. Section forty-eight of the principal Act is amended in
subsections (2) and (3) by the deletion of the words" Patents
Tribunal" wherever they occur and the substitution therefor
of " High Court".
Amendment
of section 48
17. Seotion fifty of the principal Act is amended in sub
sections (1), (2), (4), (5), (6) and (8) by the deletion of the words
"Patents Tribunal" wherever they occur and the substitu
tion therefor of " High Court".
Amondment
of section 50