The Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005, 15 of 2005, (Rep., Act 23 of 2016)

Section 54. In section 90 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for clause (vii), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely:

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54. In section 90 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for clause (vii), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely:— "(vii) that the licence is granted with a predominant purpose of supply in the Indian market and that the licensee may also export the patented product, if need be in accordance with the provisions of sub-clause (iii) of clause (a) of sub-section (7) of section 84; (viii) that in the case of semi-conductor technology, the licence granted is to work the invention for public non-commercial use; (ix) that in case the licence is granted to remedy a practice determined after judicial or administrative process to be anti-competitive, the licensee shall be permitted to export the patented product, if need be."

Source: India Code