Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) This regulation sets out:
(a) for paragraph 24(1)(a) of the Act--a circumstance in relation to information made publicly available by, or with the consent of, the nominated person, patentee or predecessor in title of the nominated person or patentee; and
(b) for subsection 24(1) of the Act--a period for making a complete application for an invention if the circumstance applies.
Circumstance--working of invention for reasonable trial
(2) The circumstance is that:
(a) the information has been made publicly available because the invention was worked in public; and
(b) the working of the invention was for the purposes of a reasonable trial of the invention; and
(c) because of the nature of the invention, it was reasonably necessary for the working to be in public.
Period
(3) The period for making a complete application for the invention is:
(a) if the complete application claims priority from a basic application made within 12 months of the start of the public working of the invention--12 months from the day the basic application was made; or
(b) if the complete application is associated with a provisional application made within 12 months of the start of the public working of the invention--12 months from the day the provisional application was made; or
(c) otherwise--12 months from the start of the public working of the invention.