Results 521-540 of 1,279 for speaker:Michael Ahern
- Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (10 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: Further to my reply to the Deputy's previous questions on this matter on 28 March 2006, representations were made to my Office enquiring about the Commercial Agents Directive â EC Council Directive 86/653 EEC of 18/12/86 as transposed into national law by Statutory Instruments No. 33 of 1994 and No. 31 of 1997. I understand from these representations that a number of this company's Area...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: These amendments relate to how various international agreements are referred to in the Bill. Amendments Nos. 1, 4 and 22 relate to the agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation and the insertion of a reference to the agreement being done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994. I accept these amendments. Amendment No. 2 relates to the references to the European patent convention in the Long...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 2: To delete "DONE" and substitute "SIGNED".
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 3: To delete "DONE" and substitute "ADOPTED".
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 4: In page 5, line 28, to delete "signed" and substitute "done".
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, line 17, to delete "Where the application is made" and substitute "Where the application for a patent was made". The amendment is of a clarifying nature and relates to section 9 of the Bill as amended on Committee Stage. Section 9 amends the Patents Act 1992 by inserting a new section 35A, which deals with the reinstatement of applications. The purpose of...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 6: In page 10, line 22, after "section 28" to insert the following: "and it appears to the Controller that reasonable care was taken to comply with the requirement within the prescribed period or, as the case may be, the period specified by the Controller". Section 9, as considered by the committee, amends the Patents Act 1992 by inserting a new section 35A, which...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 7: In page 11, to delete lines 25 to 27 and substitute the following: "the person shall have the right to continue to do the act concerned or, as the case may be, to do that act, notwithstanding the reinstatement of the application and the grant of the patent." These amendments, while appearing complex and significant, do not involve any change in policy from the Bill as...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: 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...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 9: In page 11, to delete line 28 and substitute the following: "(5) In this section "termination", in relation to".
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 10: In page 11, to delete lines 34 to 42 and substitute the following: "(a) by substituting the following for subsection (7): "(7) An order under this section for the restoration of a patent may be made subject to such conditions as the Controller thinks fit, including in particular a condition requiring the entry in the register of any matter in respect of which the...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, line 13, to delete "infringing act."." and substitute "infringing act;".
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 12: In page 12, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "(c) where, after the expiration of the period of extension specified for the purpose of section 36(3) and before the date of publication of the application for restoration of the patent in the Journal under subsection (4), a personâ (i) began in good faith to do an act which would constitute an...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: 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...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 14: In page 14, line 14, to delete "Subject as hereinafter provided, where" and substitute "Where".
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 15: In page 14, to delete lines 26 to 28 and substitute the following: "licence to be granted upon such terms as the Controller thinks fit, provided that:".
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 16: In page 17, to delete lines 32 to 46 and in page 18, to delete lines 1 to 29 and substitute the following: 27.âThe Principal Act is amended by inserting the following section after section 110: 110A.â(1) Whereâ (a) the Controller is requested to correct an error or mistake in a withdrawal of an application for a patent, and (b) an application for a patent has...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 17: In page 19, to delete lines 7 to 16 and substitute the following: "(c) in subsection (5)â (i) by substituting the following for paragraph (a): "(a) under the European Patent Convention a European patent designating the Stateâ (i) is revoked for failure to observe a time limit and is subsequently restored, or (ii) is revoked by the Board of Appeal and is...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 18: In page 20, to delete lines 23 and 24 and substitute the following: "subsections (8A) to (8D) shall apply. (8A) The person referred to in subsection (8) shall have the right to continue to do the act concerned or, as the case may be, to do that act, notwithstanding the restoration of the effect of section 119(1). (8B) Subsection (8A) does not extend to granting a...
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2006)
Michael Ahern: I move amendment No. 19: In page 21, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: "(c) by substituting the following for subsection (5): "(5) Where between the cesser, by virtue of subsection (4), of subsections (1), (2) and (3) as regards an application for a European patent and the re-establishment of the rights of the applicant, a person begins in good faith to do an act which would,...