Singapore legislation
Regulation 40
Regulation 40
Minimum documentation for search
Subregulation 1
The documentation referred to in rule 2A(2)(a) (“minimum documentation”) shall consist of —
the patents issued by or registered in Singapore;
the patent applications published in Singapore;
the “national patent documents” as specified in paragraph (2); and
the published international (Patent Co-operation Treaty) applications.
Subregulation 1A
[Deleted by S 81/2014 wef 14/02/2014]
Subregulation 2
Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the “national patent documents” shall be the following:
the patents issued by Australia, France, the former Reichspatentamt of Germany, Japan, Switzerland (in French and German languages only), the United Kingdom and the United States of America;
the patents issued by the Federal Republic of Germany; and
the patent applications, if any, published in the countries referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b).
Subregulation 3
The patent documents of Japan, for which no abstracts in the English language are generally available, need not form part of the “minimum documentation” referred to in paragraph (1).
Subregulation 4
Only those patents issued and those patent applications published, after a date not more than 50 years before the declared priority date or, where there is no declared priority date, the date of filing of the application being subjected to a search, need form part of the “minimum documentation” referred to in paragraph (1).