ANNEX TO EXPLANATORY NOTES: PATENTS ACT 2004:AMENDMENTS TO THE PATENTS ACT 1977 Section 36 – Co-ownership
(3)Subject to the provisions of sections 8 and 12 above and section 37 below and to any agreement for the time being in force, where two or more persons are proprietors of a patent one of them shall not without the consent of the other or others –
(a)amend the specification of the patent or apply for such an amendment to be allowed or for the patent to be revoked, or
(b)grant a licence under the patent or assign or mortgage a share in the patent or in Scotland cause or permit security to be granted over it.