Regulation 45A

If the Registrar receives an observation in writing on the question of whether an invention is a patentable invention under section 32(1), the Registrar must give written notice of this fact to the applicant in the application for the patent.

The Registrar must send a copy of the observation to an Examiner who is carrying out an examination of the application under section 29(4)(a) or (5)(a)(ii) or a supplementary examination under section 29(6)(a), and the Examiner must take the observation into consideration.