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PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 214A Approved means of filing documents

PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 214A

Approved means of filing documents

  (1)   For the purposes of section   214, the Commissioner may, by writing, determine one or more means for filing a document with the Patent Office.

  (2)   The means may be an electronic means or any other means.

  (3)   The Commissioner must publish a notice in the Official Journal setting out the determination.

  (4)   The Commissioner may, in a determination under subsection   (1), specify that one or more means for filing a document with the Patent Office are preferred means.

Note:   Under the regulations, reduced fees may be payable for filing a document by preferred means.

  (5)   A determination under subsection   (1) is not a legislative instrument.