PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 50 Application or grant may be refused in certain cases
PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 50
Application or grant may be refused in certain cases(1) The Commissioner may refuse to accept a request and specification relating to a standard patent, or to grant a standard patent:
(a) for an invention the use of which would be contrary to law; or
(b) on the ground that the specification claims as an invention:
(i) a substance that is capable of being used as food or medicine (whether for human beings or animals and whether for internal or external use) and is a mere mixture of known ingredients; or
(ii) a process producing such a substance by mere admixture.
(2) The Commissioner may refuse to accept a specification
relating to a standard patent containing a claim that includes the name of a
person as the name, or part of the name, of the invention so far as claimed in
that claim.