Singapore legislation
Regulation 47
Regulation 47
Putting application in order
Subregulation 1
The period prescribed for the purposes of section 29A(2)(a) shall be 2 months after the date of the notice of eligibility to proceed to the grant of a patent under section 29A(1).
Subregulation 2
The period prescribed for the purposes of section 29B(6)(a) shall be 2 months after the date of the notice of eligibility to proceed to the grant of a patent under section 29B(5)(b)(i).
Subregulation 3
Payment of the prescribed fee for the grant of a patent must be accompanied by Patents Form 14 duly completed and filed by the applicant.
Subregulation 4
Where the specification of the application for a patent has been amended or corrected, or one or more missing parts have been included in the application, since the filing of the application —
in any case where the Registrar has issued to the applicant a notice of eligibility to proceed to the grant of a patent under section 29A(1) —
if any such amendment or correction is made before or at the time of compliance with section 29A(2)(a), the applicant shall, unless the Registrar specifies otherwise, file a specification incorporating every such amendment or correction at the time of compliance with section 29A(2)(a);
if any such amendment or correction is made after the time of compliance with section 29A(2)(a), the applicant shall file a specification incorporating every such amendment or correction within such period as the Registrar may specify; and
any such missing part shall be included before or at the time of compliance with section 29A(2)(a), and the applicant shall file a specification incorporating every such missing part at the time of compliance with section 29A(2)(a); or
in any case where the Registrar has sent the applicant a notice of eligibility to proceed to the grant of a patent under section 29B(5)(b)(i) —
if any such amendment or correction is made before or at the time of compliance with section 29B(6)(a), the applicant shall file a specification incorporating every such amendment or correction at the time of compliance with section 29B(6)(a);
if any such amendment or correction is made after the time of compliance with section 29B(6)(a), the applicant shall file a specification incorporating every such amendment or correction within such period as the Registrar may specify; and
any such missing part shall be included before or at the time of compliance with section 29B(6)(a), and the applicant shall file a specification incorporating every such missing part at the time of compliance with section 29B(6)(a).
Subregulation 4A
The documents prescribed for the purposes of section 30(c) shall be —
a duly completed Patents Form 14; and
every specification required to be filed under paragraph (4), if any.
Subregulation 5
[Deleted by S 93/2007]
Subregulation 5A
[Deleted by S 93/2007]
Subregulation 6
No amendment or correction (other than an amendment or correction introduced in order to comply with the formal requirements) may be introduced in the specification to be filed under paragraph (4).
Subregulation 7
Paragraphs (4) and (6) shall not apply to an international application for a patent (Singapore) if the only amendment to the specification since the filing of the application was an amendment referred to in section 86(5) of the Act which has been incorporated in the specification of the application before it was published in accordance with the Patent Co-operation Treaty.