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Competition Act 1998 (Chapter 41, updated up to October 17, 2013), United Kingdom
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Year of Version
2013
Dates
Status as of:
October 17, 2013
Amended up to:
July 3, 2012
Enacted:
November 9, 1998
Type of Text
IP-related Laws
Subject Matter
Patents (Inventions),
Competition,
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Notes
The Competition Act 1998 is structured in 4 Parts and 14 Schedules.
Part I of Schedule 4 (Professional Rules) of this Act provides exclusion to the Chapter I prohibition for the services of the registered patent agents (within the meaning of Part V of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988).
Article 70, Part 4 stipulates that Sections 44 and 45 of the Patents Act 1977 shall cease to have effect and Schedule 14 sets out the extent of the repeal.
Schedule 14 also provides for the repeal in section 193(2), Paragraph (c) and the 'and' immediately before it of the Broadcasting Act 1990.
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