Patents Regulations 1912 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 198.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE PATENTS ACT 1903-1935.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Patents Act 1903-1935.

Dated this fourteenth day of August, 1941.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Attorney-General.

 

Amendments of the Patents Regulations, 1912.

1. Regulation 55 of the Patents Regulations, 1912 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Copies of drawings.

“55.—(1.) A ‘true copy’ of the original drawings shall be lodged therewith, except where a photographic copy is made under the next succeeding sub-regulation.

“(2.) The Commissioner may, on the request of the applicant and on payment of the prescribed fee, make a photographic copy of the original drawings.

“(3.) The Commissioner shall mark the copy so made with the words ‘True Copy’ and that copy shall be used as the ‘true copy’ of the original drawings.”.

2. Regulation 131 of the Patents Regulations, 1912 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Payment of renewal fees.

“131. If a patentee intends to keep his patent in force after the expiration of the fifth year or of any succeeding year from the date of the patent, the prescribed renewal fee shall be paid before the expiration of that year.”.

Persons eligible to enter for Intermediate Part.

3.Regulation 177 of the Patents Regulations, 1912 is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the word “October” and inserting in its stead the word “September”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on   , 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1912, No. 76, as amended by Statutory Rules 1913, No. 310; 1914, No. 69; 1915, No. 267; 1916, Nos. 45 and 162; 1918, No. 142; 1919, Nos. 14, 30 and 239; 1920, No. 137; 1923, Nos. 79 and 139; 1924, No. 115; 1930, No. 148; 1931, Nos. 88 and 147; 1932, Nos. 30 and 69; 1933, Nos. 52, 57 and 90; 1934, Nos. 39 and 134; 1935, Nos. 23, 45, 67 and 90; 1936, No. 89; 1937, Nos. 19, 50 and 101; 1939, No. 1; and 1940, No. 198.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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