Singapore legislation

Clause 8

of Patents (Amendment) Bill

Clause 8

Amendment of section 36

Section 36 of the Patents Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “on which notice of its grant is published in the journal” in the 3rd and 4th lines of subsection (1) and substituting the words “of issue of the certificate of grant”; and

(b)

by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:“(4) Rules shall include provision requiring the Registrar to notify the registered proprietor of a patent that a renewal fee has not been received from him in the Registry before the end of the prescribed period and before the framing of the notification.”.