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.