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PATENTS REGULATIONS 1991 - REG 20.12

Prescribed offences

  (1)   An offence against any of the following Acts is a prescribed offence for paragraph   198(4)(e) of the Act:

  (a)   the Act;

  (b)   the Designs Act 2003 ;

  (c)   the Plant Breeder's Rights Act 1994 ;

  (d)   the Trade arks Act 1995 ;

  (e)   the Designs Act 1953 of New Zealand;

  (f)   the Patents Act 1953 of New Zealand;

  (g)   the Patents Act 2013 of New Zealand;

  (h)   the Plant Variety Rights Act 1987 of New Zealand;

  (i)   the Trade Marks Act 2002 of New Zealand.

  (2)   An offence of dishonesty for which the maximum penalty is imprisonment for at least 2 years is a prescribed offence for paragraph   198(4 )( f) of the Act.

Note:   Subsection   198(4) of the Act provides that the Designated Manager must register as a patent attorney a person who satisfies certain conditions. Paragraph   1 98(4 )( e) requires that a person not have been convicted of a prescribed offence during the previous 5 years. Paragraph   1 98(4 )( f) requires that a person not be under sentence of imprisonment for a prescribed offence.

 


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