Patents.
Protection for your New or Improved Product or Process.
Document Actions
2. Refusal of a patent without opposition (section 22)
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Regulation 57: Notice to applicant
The Commissioner must give notice to the applicant if he considers that an accepted patent application has been prior published. The applicant is allowed 2 months from receiving such notice to submit an amendment to their application in order to satisfy the Commissioner’s concerns. This two month period can be extended under regulation 59 using a patents form 10.
Regulation 58: Hearing
If the Commissioner finds that the amendments are not satisfactory then the applicant can request to have a hearing on the refusal of the amendments.
Last updated 16 November 2009
