Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 79

                   If:

                     (a)  a patentee applies for an extension of the term of a standard patent; and

                     (b)  the term of the patent expires before the application is determined; and

                     (c)  the extension is granted;

the patentee has, after the extension is granted, the same rights to start proceedings in respect of the doing of an act during the period:

                     (d)  commencing on the expiration of the term of the patent; and

                     (e)  ending on the day on which the extension was granted;

as if the extension had been granted at the time when the act was done.