Section 101D. Commissioner to be given information on searches
Current to 02 Sep 2010
Incorporating Amendments up to Act No. 96 of 2010.
| (1) The patentee must inform the Commissioner, in accordance with the regulations, of the results of the following searches carried out for the purpose of assessing the patentability of an invention disclosed in the complete specification or a corresponding application filed outside Australia: |
| (a) |
any documentary searches by, or on behalf of, a foreign patent office, other than searches prescribed by the regulations; |
| (b) |
the documentary searches prescribed by the regulations. |
| (2) Subsection (1) only applies to searches completed before the issue of a certificate of examination in respect of the patent. |
| completed, in relation to a search, has the meaning prescribed by the regulations. |
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