The Patents (Companies Re-registration) Rules 1982

• Citation: S.I. 1982/297
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Rules may be cited as the Patents (Companies Re-registration) Rules 1982 and shall come into operation on 5th April 1982.

Section 2

Where a body corporate has re-registered under the Companies Act 1980 with the same name as that with which it was registered immediately before the re-registration save for the substitution as, or the inclusion as, the last part of the name (in either upper or lower case of letters and with or without punctuation marks) of—

(a) the words “public limited company” or their equivalent in Welsh; or

(b) the abbreviation “p.l.c.” or its equivalent in Welsh,

then reference to the name of the body corporate in any application to the comptroller, in the register and in any other record kept at, or any document issued by, the Patent Office and relating to patents shall be treated on and after the date of such re-registration as references to the name with which the body corporate is so re-registered.