Patents Regulations 1912 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1937. No. 19.

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 seventeenth day of February, 1937.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Sgd. ROBERT G. MENZIES.

Attorney-General.

Amendments of the Patents Regulations, 1912.

Repeal of regulation 130.

1. Regulation 130 of the Patents Regulations, 1912 is repealed.

2. After regulation 145 of the Patents Regulations, 1912 the following regulations are inserted:—

Copies of Register, documents, &c.

“145a.—(1.) Copies of or extracts from the Register of Patents or of or from any deeds or documents in the Patent Office and copies of printed specifications and abridgments thereof which are available for public reference in the Patent Office Library may, subject to the Act and these Regulations, be supplied by the Commissioner on payment of the prescribed fee.

(2.) The Commissioner may, on payment of the prescribed fee, certify, under the seal of the Patent Office, any such copy or extract.

Reports of hearings and copies thereof.

“145b. The Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, cause a shorthand report to be made of the hearing of any matter which, under the Act, comes before him for hearing, and may, on payment of the prescribed fee, supply uncertified copies of the transcript of the report to any party to that matter.”.

 

*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; and 1936, No. 89.

4554.—8/5.2.1937.—Price 3d.

 

Amendment of the First Schedule.

3. The First Schedule to the Patents Regulations, 1912 is amended—

(a) by omitting items 38 to 41 (inclusive) and inserting in their stead the following items:—

“38. For copies of or extracts from the Register of Patents, deeds or documents in the Patent Office, or printed specifications (other than out-of-print Commonwealth specifications) and abridgments of all printed specifications in the Patent Office Library as provided for in regulation 145a— Per sheet thirteen inches by eight inches.......................	0	1	0
“39. For copies of transcripts of reports of hearings before the Commissioner as provided for in regulation 145b— Per sheet thirteen inches by eight inches.......................	0	1	0
“40. For copies of out-of-print Commonwealth printed specifications— Per copy....................................................................	0	1	6	”.

(b) by omitting from item 44 the figures “130” and inserting in their stead the figures “145a”; and

(c) by omitting from the column headed “Corresponding Form” the letter “V”.

Amendment of the Second Schedule.

4. The Second Schedule to the Patents Regulations, 1912 is amended—

(a) by omitting from the Index to Patent Forms item V; and

(b) by omitting Form V.

 

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