Michael Ahern (Cork East, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 13:

In page 14, to delete lines 9 to 13 and substitute the following:

"concerned, provided that such invention involves an important technical advance of considerable economic significance in relation to the invention claimed in the first patent.".

Amendments Nos. 13 and 15 arise from Committee Stage amendments proposed by Deputy Hogan, which I undertook to consider further before Report Stage. Having examined them, I am moving these amendments, the effect of which is to accept Deputy Hogan's Committee Stage amendments.

With regard to amendment No. 14, having examined the matter further, it would appear that neither the current qualification of subsection (3) of "Subject as hereinafter provided, where" or the alternative proposed by Deputy Hogan on Committee Stage, "Subject to the provision of this section", is necessary. The subsection can simply begin with the word "Where", as subsections (3) and (4) of section 70 can stand alone.

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