Appendix J
Letter from the Patent Office to the Clerk of
the Committee
Proposal for the Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order
2004: answers to further questions from the Committee
Thank you for your letter of 14th. January 2004,
which contained a number of further questions posed by the House
of Commons Regulatory Reform Committee. Thank you also for the
enclosures.
Please find attached our answers in the form of a
table.[137]
The draft proposals for reform of the national security
provisions have been reconsidered in the light of the responses
which were forwarded with your letter, and the Committee's questions
have been answered in the light of revisions we are now proposing
to make. It is regretted that the opinions on which these revisions
are founded were not available to us at a time when they could
have influenced the form of the draft proposed order as laid before
Parliament.
I also include a further table which cross-correlates
those parts of the Patents Bill which now rely on the proposed
Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order.[138]
Please do not hesitate to contact me should the Committee
require any further information.
23 January 2004
137 See annex 1 below. Back
138
See annex 2 below. Back
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