The Patents (Amendment) Rules 1987
These Rules bring into force section 77(6) and section 78(7) of the Patents Act 1977 which provide for the filing of translations into English of specifications and amendments of European patents (UK) and claims of applications for European patents (UK) which have been published in French and German under the European Patent Convention by the European Patent Office. They also amend the Patents Rules 1982 so as to prescribe forms and to introduce other requirements for these translations and they amend the Patents (Fees) Rules 1986 to prescribe fees in connection with these translations. Similar provision is made for corrected translations filed under section 80(3) of the 1977 Act where the translation originally filed confers narrower protection than that conferred by the French or German text published by the European Patent Office. A consequential amendment is made to rule 113 of the 1982 Rules.