Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:
"abstract" means abstract of a complete specification.
(a) in relation to a patent request and complete specification relating to an application for a standard patent -- acceptance of the patent request and complete specification under section 49 of the Act; and
(b) in relation to a patent request and complete specification relating to an application for an innovation patent -- acceptance of the patent request and complete specification under section 52 of the Act.
"basic documents" means documents filed in a Convention country in respect of a basic application.
"certificate of verification" means a statement:
(a) that a document to which the statement relates is a true and complete translation of the accompanying document to the best of the knowledge of the person who signs the statement; and
(b) that is dated and signed.
"competent authority" , in relation to a Convention country, means a person who, under the laws of the country or the arrangements in place in the country, is authorised to certify copies of specifications of patents for the country.
"Disciplinary Tribunal" means the Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys Disciplinary Tribunal established under regulation 20.41.
former attorneys Regulations means the following Regulations:
(a) the Patent Attorneys Regulations as in force immediately before the commencing day under the 1952 Act;
(b) the Patents Regulations 1991 as in force immediately before 1 July 2008.
"former patents Regulations" means the Patents Regulations in force immediately before the commencing day under the 1952 Act.
"International Bureau" means the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization.
"the Act" means the Patents Act 1990 .
"the Tribunal" means the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
(2) A reference in these Regulations to:
(a) the giving of a notice or other document; or
(b) the making of a request or an application;
to the Commissioner or the Patent Office includes a reference to the filing of the document.
(3) A reference in these Regulations to a document that is open to public inspection is a reference to a document that may be inspected by the public at the Patent Office.
(4) Subject to subregulation (5), if the Commissioner or the Patent Office gives a document to a person, the document is taken to have been given to the person on the day on which the document is dated by the Commissioner or the Office, unless the contrary intention appears.
(5) If:
(a) the Commissioner or the Patent Office makes a document available electronically for a person; and
(b) sends a notice to the person telling them that the document is available for them to collect electronically;
the document is taken to have been given to the person on the day on which the notice is dated by Commissioner or the Office, unless the contrary intention appears.
(6) A requirement in these Regulations to give information to the Commissioner or to another person (whether the expression 'give', 'tell', 'inform' or another expression is used) is a requirement to give the information in writing, unless the contrary intention appears.
(7) For these Regulations, a period expressed in months is to be worked out in the way described in rule 80.2 of the Regulations under the Patent Cooperation Treaty set out in Schedule 2A.