Dáil debates

Wednesday, 4 October 2006

Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages

 

1:00 pm

Photo of Michael AhernMichael Ahern (Cork East, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 8:

In page 11, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following:

"(2) Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) does not extend to granting a licence to any person to do an act referred to in that paragraph.

(3) If the act referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) was done, or the preparations were made to do it, in the course of a business, the person entitled to the right conferred by the said paragraph (c) may -

(a) authorise that act to be done by any partner of that person for the time being in that business, and

(b) assign the right, or transmit that right on death (or in the case of a body corporate on its dissolution), to any person who acquires that part of the business in the course of which the act was done or preparations had been made to do it.

(4) Where a product is disposed of by any person to another person in exercise of a right conferred by paragraph (c) of subsection (1) or by subsection (3), that other person and any person claiming through that other person shall be entitled to deal with the product in the same way as if it had been disposed of by the applicant.".

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