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PATENTS REGULATIONS 1991 - REG 22.16A

Consequences for evidence not meeting filing requirements

  (1)   If, in relation to evidence received at the Patent Office, a person does not comply with a direction under section   214C of the Act, the Commissioner may treat the evidence:

  (a)   as not having been filed and notify the person, including in the notification a statement indicating how the direction has not been complied with; or

  (b)   as having been filed, but direct the person to do such things as are necessary to ensure that the direction is complied with.

  (2)   If the Commissioner gives a direction under paragraph   ( 1)(b) and the person does not comply with the direction within 2 months of the day it was given, the Commissioner must treat the evidence as not having been filed.


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