Singapore legislation
Regulation 2
Regulation 2
Definitions
Subregulation 1
In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —[Deleted by S 81/2014 wef 14/02/2014][Deleted by S 81/2014 wef 14/02/2014][Deleted by S 81/2014 wef 14/02/2014][Deleted by S 81/2014 wef 14/02/2014][Deleted by S 81/2014 wef 14/02/2014][Deleted by S 81/2014 wef 14/02/2014][Deleted by S 81/2014 wef 14/02/2014](2) In these Rules, except where otherwise indicated —
references to a section are references to that section of the Act;
references to a rule are references to that rule in these Rules;
references to a Schedule are references to that Schedule to these Rules; and
references to the filing of a form or other document are references to filing it at the Registry.
[Deleted by S 210/2013 wef 08/04/2013]
Definition
“certificate of grant” means a certificate for the purposes of section 35(1);
Definition
“convention country” has the same meaning as in section 17(10);
Definition
“costs” includes fees, charges, disbursements, expenses, allowances and remuneration;
Definition
“declared priority date” means —
the date of filing of the earliest relevant application specified in a declaration made for the purposes of section 17(2) where the priority date claimed in the declaration has not been lost or abandoned and where the declaration has not been withdrawn before preparations for the publication of the application in suit have been completed by the Registry in accordance with section 27; or
where an international application for a patent (Singapore) is to be treated as an application for a patent under the Act, the date of filing of the earliest application filed in or for a country which is a convention country or which, in accordance with the law of a convention country or a treaty or international convention to which a convention country is a party, is equivalent to such an application, the priority of which is claimed in a declaration filed for the purposes of Article 8 of the Patent Co-operation Treaty, provided that such priority claim has not been lost or abandoned under the provisions of that Treaty;
Definition
“electronic online system” means the electronic online system established under rule 96A;
Definition
“initiation date”, in relation to a new application for a patent, means the date on which the application was initiated by the filing at the Registry of any document which satisfies any condition referred to in section 26(1)(a), (b) or (c);
Definition
“international preliminary report on patentability” means an international preliminary report on patentability (Chapter I of the Patent Co-operation Treaty), or an international preliminary report on patentability (Chapter II of the Patent Co-operation Treaty), referred to in the Regulations under the Patent Co-operation Treaty;
Definition
“sequence” and “sequence listing” have the same meanings as they have under the Patent Co-operation Treaty.