Commonwealth act

Patents Act (Partial Suspension) Act 1916

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

13 of 1916

Collection

act

Plain English Summary

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This Act temporarily suspends Section 87a of the Patents Act 1903–1909—pausing the four‑year “working” deadline during World War I and for six months after peace—so time lost to wartime disruption doesn’t count against patent holders. It protects patentees from compulsory licenses they might otherwise face when shipping and manufacturing constraints made local working or importation impossible.

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Patents Act (Partial Suspension) Act 1916

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PATENTS ACT (PARTIAL SUSPENSION).

No. 13 of 1916.

An Act to suspend the operation of Section Eighty-seven a of the Patents Act 1903-1909 during the continuance of the present War and for a period of six months thereafter.

[Assented to 30th May, 1916.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Patents Act (Partial Suspension) Act 1916.

Temporary suspension of the Patents Act 1903-1909, s. 87a.

2. The operation of section eighty-seven a of the Patents Act 1903-1909 shall be suspended during the continuance of the present war, and for a period of six months thereafter, and in reckoning the period of four years mentioned in that section the period during which that section is suspended by virtue of this Act shall not be taken in account.

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