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PATENTS REGULATIONS 1991 - REG 20.28

Failure to comply with continuing professional education requirements

  (1)   If a registered patent attorney fails to comply with the requirements applicable to the attorney under subregulation   20.25(1) or (2), the Designated Manager may remove the attorney's name from the Register of Patent Attorneys for a period not exceeding 6 months.

  (2)   If a registered patent attorney, without reasonable excuse:

  (a)   provides a written statement under paragraph   20.25(1 )( a) that is false in a material particular; or

  (b)   fails to produce written records of his or her continuing professional education activities in accordance with a request under paragraph   20.25(2 )( b);

the Designated Manager must remove the attorney's name from the Register of Patent Attorneys .

  (3)   If the Designated Manager removes the name of a registered patent attorney from the Register of Patent Attorneys under subregulation   (2), the name of the attorney must not be returned to the Register of Patent Attorneys in accordance with regulation   20.29 for a period of 6 months from the day on which the attorney's name was removed from the Register of Patent Attorneys .

 


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