Patents Regulations 1912 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1937. No. 101.

 

REGULATION 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 Regulation under the Patents Act 1903-1935.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of October, 1937.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Attorney-General.

 

Amendment of the Patents Regulations, 1912.

Time limit for acceptance of complete specification.

Regulation 14 of the Patents Regulations, 1912 is amended by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(c) where an application for a patent is accompanied by a complete specification and—

(i) the examiner’s first report on the application or on the complete specification is adverse thereto;

(ii) the communication informing the applicant of the report is not despatched from the Patent Office within six months from the time when the application and complete specification were lodged in the Patent Office; and

(iii) the Commissioner is satisfied that the making of the report was not delayed by reason of any delay or omission on the part of the applicant or his attorney,

the Commissioner may allow an extension of time for acceptance of the complete specification for such period (not exceeding six months) as he thinks fit;”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1937.

  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; and 1937, Nos. 19 and 50.

 

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

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