Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) For subsection 55(1) of the Act, all documents that are:
(a) associated with the application, or with any provisional application associated with the application; and
(b) in the possession of the Patent Office;
are prescribed, other than:
(c) documents that would be privileged from production in legal proceedings on the ground of legal professional privilege; and
(e) the documents mentioned in subregulation (2).
(2) For paragraphs 55(2)(a), (b) and (c) of the Act, the following documents are prescribed:
(a) a document that is subject to an order of a court or a tribunal that prohibits disclosure of the document or information in the document;
(b) a document that the Commissioner has reasonable grounds for believing should not be open to public inspection.