[48A Compulsory licences: WTO proprietors]
Patents Act 1977 (1977 c 37) | Legislation

[48A  Compulsory licences: WTO proprietors]

[(1)     In the case of an application made under section 48 above in respect of a patent whose proprietor is a WTO proprietor, the relevant grounds are—

(a)     where the patented invention is a product, that a demand in the United Kingdom for that product is not being met on reasonable terms;

(b)     that by reason of the refusal of the proprietor of the patent concerned to grant a licence or licences on reasonable terms—

(i)     the exploitation in the United Kingdom of any other patented invention which involves an important technical advance of considerable economic significance in relation to the invention for which the patent concerned was granted is prevented or hindered, or

(ii)     the

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