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Versions of s. 56(3)

P-4 — Patent Act · 2 versions · View current text

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2018-12-13 to present available View Source
    SectionThe 56use or sale of thean Patentarticle Act,is asnot itan read immediately before the day on which subsection (1) came into force, applies in respectinfringement of a purchase, constructionpatent or acquisitionany madecertificate beforeof supplementary protection that daysets out the patent if that article was acquired, directly or indirectly, from a person who, at the time they disposed of anit, inventioncould forsell whichit awithout infringing the patent is issued onor the basis of an application filed after October 1, 1989 and before the day on which subsection (1) came into force.certificate
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    The use or sale of an article is not an infringement of a patent or any certificate of supplementary protection that sets out the patent if that article was acquired, directly or indirectly, from a person who, at the time they disposed of it, could sell it without infringing the patent or the certificate

  2. 2002-12-31 to present View Source

    Section 56 of the Patent Act, as it read immediately before the day on which subsection (1) came into force, applies in respect of a purchase, construction or acquisition made before that day of an invention for which a patent is issued on the basis of an application filed after October 1, 1989 and before the day on which subsection (1) came into force.