Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 176

                   Where:

                     (a)  an international application specifies Australia as a designated State; and

                     (b)  as a result of a prohibition order or of anything done in reliance on section 175, the application is, under the PCT, to be considered as having been withdrawn; and

                     (c)  the applicant files, within the prescribed period, a written request signed by the applicant that the application be treated as an application under this Act for a standard patent; and

                     (d)  the applicant files any prescribed documents and pays the prescribed fee;

then, except as otherwise prescribed:

                     (e)  the application must be treated as requested; and

                      (f)  the description, claims and drawings in the application must be treated as a complete specification filed in respect of the application; and

                     (g)  the application and specification must be treated as having been filed on the date on which the international application was filed.