Patents Regulations, 1912 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 162.

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REGULATION UNDER THE PATENTS ACT 1903-1909.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned Regulation under the Patents Act 1903-1909, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of July, 1916.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. MAHON,

Acting Attorney-General.

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Amendment of the Patents Regulations 1912.

(Statutory Rules 1912, No. 76.)

After Regulation 152 of the Patents Regulations 1912 the following Regulation is inserted:—

Agent acting for two or more parties.

“152a.—(1) An agent shall not at one and the same time represent two or more parties having conflicting interests in any proceeding or matter before the Commissioner of Patents.

(2) Whenever in any such proceeding or matter the same agent is employed by two or more parties, the Commissioner may at his discretion require that any of the said parties shall, be represented before him by a different agent, and may adjourn any proceeding or matter until that party is so represented.

(3) Whenever an agent has been appointed to represent a party in any proceeding or matter before the Commissioner of Patents, be shall not afterwards represent any other party having a conflicting interest in the proceeding or matter unless he has received from the first-mentioned party written notice of the revocation of his appointment as agent, and has served that notice, or a certified copy thereof, on the Commissioner. The authority of substitution and revocation provided for by Form E in the Second Schedule will not be regarded as sufficient notice of revocation for the purposes of this sub-regulation.”

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