Expenditure on acquisition of patent rights or copyrights

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....isition of patent rights or copyrights (hereafter, in this section, referred to as rights) used for the purposes of the business, there shall, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this section, be allowed for each of the relevant previous years, a deduction equal to the appropriate fraction of the amount of such expenditure. Explanation.-For the purposes of this section,- ....

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....d as aforesaid, of a reference to one year; (ii) "appropriate fraction" means the fraction the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is the number of the relevant previous years. (2) Where the rights come to an end without being subsequently revived or where the whole or any part of the rights is sold and the proceeds of the sale (so far as they consist of capital sums....

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.... may be, are sold. (4) Where the whole or any part of the rights is sold and the proceeds of the sale (so far as they consist of capital sums) exceed the amount of the cost of acquisition thereof remaining unallowed, so much of the excess as does not exceed the difference between the cost of acquisition of the rights and the amount of such cost remaining unallowed shall be chargeable to income-....

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....of the previous year during which the rights are sold.] ^3[(6) Where, in a scheme of amalgamation, the amalgamating company sells or otherwise transfers the rights to the amalgamated company (being an Indian company),- (i) the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4) shall not apply in the case of the amalgamating company; and (ii) the provisions of this section shall, as far as....