Section 141: Determination of certain contracts.

The Patents Act, 1970Central Act · Act 39 of 1970

(1)Any contract for the sale or lease of a patented article or for licence to manufacture, use or work a patented article or process, or relating to any such sale, lease or licence*** may at any time after the patent or all the patents by which the article or process was protected at the time of the making of the contract has or have ceased to be in force, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the contract or in any other contract, be determined by the purchaser, lessee, or licensee, as the case may be, of the patent on giving three months notice in writing to the other party.

(2) The provisions of this section shall be without prejudice to any right of determining a contract exercisable apart from this section

Where this provision sits

Act	The Patents Act, 1970
Section	141
Marginal note	Determination of certain contracts.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

omitted. . The words"whether made before or after the commencement of this Act," omitted by s. 60, ibid. (w.e.f. 20-5-2003).

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