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
(d) the results of documentary searches provided under subsection 45 (3) of the Act; 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 required to be produced under paragraph 210 (c) of the Act, if the Commissioner has reasonable grounds for believing that the document or information in the document should not be open to public inspection;
(c) a document that contains information from a document to which paragraph (b) applies.