Singapore legislation

Clause 11

of Intellectual Property (Amendment) Bill

Clause 11

Amendment of section 29B

Section 29B of the Patents Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “The” in subsection (4) and substituting the words “Subject to subsection (4A), the”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (4), the following subsection:“(4A) The examination review report need not specify whether the Examiner agrees or disagrees with the examination report, search and examination report or supplementary examination report (as the case may be) if the applicant had amended the specification of the application for the purpose of overcoming all unresolved objections in the report.”.

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