Patents Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983

No. 481

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Patents Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Patents Act 1952.

Dated 22 April 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

BARRY JONES

Minister of State for Science and Technology

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 May 1983.

Fees

2. Regulation 5 of the Patents Regulations is amended by omitting “the prescribed fees” (first occurring) and substituting “prescribed fees”.

Form of application for patents

3. Regulation 9 of the Patents Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-regulations:

“(1) Subject to sub-regulation (lA), an application, not being an international application, for a standard patent shall be in accordance with Form 1.

“(lA) An application, by virtue of sub-section 191 (3) of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act (No. 1) 1982, for a standard patent shall be in accordance with Form 1AA.”.

 

First Schedule

4. The First Schedule to the Patents Regulations is amended by inserting after Form 1A the following form:

FORM 1aa Sub-regulation 9 (1A)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Patents Act 1952

APPLICATION FOR A STANDARD PATENT IN RESPECT OF EXCLUDED INVENTION

I, of , apply, by virtue of sub-section 191 (3) of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act (No. 1) 1982, for the grant of a standard patent for an invention entitled   which is described in the accompanying complete specification,

The application is/is not for the grant of a patent of addition.

The application is made in respect of an invention disclosed in the complete specification lodged in respect of Application No.  in the name of   but excluded before 1 July 1979, by an amendment under section 49/section 52D of the Patents Act 1952, from that complete specification.

(To be included in the case of an application for a patent of addition)

I request that the patent be granted as a patent of addition to the patent applied for in patent application No.   in the name of I request that the term of the patent of addition be the same as that for the main invention or so much of the term of the patent for the main invention as is unexpired.

My address for service is

Dated this   day of   19. 

(Signature)

(To be included in the case of an application for a patent of addition—where the applicant is not the patentee under, or the applicant for, the patent for the invention in respect of which the complete specification from which the invention the subject of this application was excluded was lodged)

I, , the applicant for the patent applied for in Application No./patentee of Patent No.

hereby consent to this application.

Dated this  day of   19 .

(Signature)

To:

The Commissioner of Patents

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 April 1983.

2. Statutory Rules 1962 No. 2 as amended by 1963 No. 52; 1965 No. 102; 1969 No. 151; (as amended by 1969 No. 212); 1974 Nos. 38 and 262; 1975 No. 201 ; 1976 No. 236; 1977 No. 177; 1979 No. 93; 1980 Nos. 68 and 320; 1981 Nos. 1, 202, 203, 243 and 372; 1982 Nos. 232 and 350.