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PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 23

Validity not affected by publication etc. after priority date

                   A patent is not invalid, so far as the invention is claimed in any claim, merely because of:

                     (a)  the publication or use of the invention, so far as claimed in that claim, on or after the priority date of that claim; or

                     (b)  the grant of another patent which claims the invention, so far as claimed in the first‑mentioned claim, in a claim of the same or a later priority date.



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