Patents Act 1990

A Register of Patents is to be kept at the Patent Office. The Register is to contain 2 parts as follows:

a part dealing with standard patents; and

a part dealing with innovation patents.

The Register may be kept wholly or partly by use of a computer.

If the Register is kept wholly or partly by use of a computer:

references in this Act to an entry in the Register are to be read as including references to a record of particulars kept by use of the computer and comprising the Register or part of the Register; and

references in this Act to particulars being registered, or entered in the Register, are to be read as including references to the keeping of a record of those particulars as part of the Register by use of the computer; and

references in this Act to the rectification of the Register are to be read as including references to the rectification of the record of particulars kept by use of the computer and comprising the Register or part of the Register.