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Board of Trade: Patents Committee: Minutes and Reports
Catalogue reference: BT 306
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BT 306
Records of the Patents Committee's investigation into the Patents and Designs Act including minutes, notes, papers circulated, evidence submitted and reports.
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- BT 306
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Patents Committee: Minutes and Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1944-1947
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Patents Committee's investigation into the Patents and Designs Act including minutes, notes, papers circulated, evidence submitted and reports.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Board of Trade, Patents Committee, 1944-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 66 volume(s)
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- Topics
- Trade and commerce
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The Committee was appointed in April 1944 under the chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Swan KC. Its terms of reference were 'to consider and report whether any, and if so what, changes are desirable to the Patents and Designs Acts, and in the practice of the Patent Office and the Courts in relation to matters arising therefrom'.
Two interim reports were published: the first in April 1945 (Cmd 6618) and the second in September 1946 (Cmd 6789). Section 1 of the Patents and Designs Act 1946 was enacted to give effect to the recommendations contained in the first interim report.
The report of the Committee was published in September 1947 (Cmd 7206).
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3342/
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