Singapore legislation
Clause 24
Clause 24
Amendment of section 80
Section 80(1) of the Patents Act is amended by deleting paragraphs (d) to (g) and substituting the following paragraphs:“(d)the matter disclosed in the specification of the patent extends beyond that disclosed —
in the application for the patent, as filed; or
where the patent was granted on a new application filed under section 20(3) or 47 (4) or section 116(6) of the Patents Act (Cap. 221, 1995 Ed.), or in accordance with section 26(6), in —
the earlier application made under this Act;
the application made under the United Kingdom Patents Act 1977; or
the application under the European Patent Convention designating the United Kingdom filed at the European Patent Office,as the case may be, from which the filing date and the right of priority has been derived, as filed;
an amendment or a correction has been made to the specification of —
the patent; or
the application for the patent,which should not have been allowed;
the patent was obtained —
fraudulently;
on any misrepresentation; or
on any non-disclosure or inaccurate disclosure of any prescribed material information, whether or not the person under a duty to provide the information knew or ought reasonably to have known of such information or the inaccuracy;
the patent is one of 2 or more patents for the same invention having the same priority date and filed by the same party or his successor in title.”.