Amendment of Patents Act 19772

After section 118 of the Patents Act 19773 insert—

Copyright in documents made available electronically for inspection under section 118(1)118A

1

This section applies to documents made available for inspection under section 118(1).

2

Any copyright in the documents is not infringed by—

a

the making available to the public of the documents by electronic transmission in such a way that members of the public may access the documents from a place and at a time individually chosen by them, or

b

copying the documents for the purpose of facilitating the making available to the public of the documents as mentioned in paragraph (a).

3

Nothing in this section is to be read as affecting the generality of any provision made by Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.