Singapore legislation
Regulation 93
Regulation 93
Inspection of documents
Subregulation 1
Subject to paragraph (5), and to the restrictions prescribed in paragraph (4), after the date of publication of an application for a patent in accordance with section 27, the Registrar shall, upon request made on Form CM10 and upon payment of the prescribed fee, permit all documents filed or kept at the Registry in relation to the application or any patent granted in pursuance of it, to be inspected using the electronic online system.
Subregulation 2
Subject to the same restrictions and to rule 96 where the circumstances specified in section 108(4) or (5) exist, the Registrar shall, upon request made on Form CM10, and upon payment of the prescribed fee, permit inspection of such documents before the publication in accordance with section 27.
Subregulation 3
[Deleted by S 81/2014 wef 14/02/2014]
Subregulation 4
The restrictions referred to in paragraph (1) are —
that no document shall be open to inspection until 14 days after it has been filed at the Registry;
that documents prepared in the Registry solely for use therein shall not be open to inspection;
that any document sent to the Registry, at its request or otherwise, for inspection and subsequent return to the sender, shall not be open to inspection;
that no request made under rule 59 or 92 or this rule, or rule 63(2) in force immediately before 14th February 2014, shall be open to inspection; and
that documents in respect of which the Registrar issues directions under rule 94 that they are to be treated as confidential shall not be open to inspection, except as permitted in accordance with that rule.
Subregulation 5
Nothing in this rule shall be construed as imposing on the Registrar any duty of making available for public inspection any document or any part of a document —
which in his opinion disparages any person in a way likely to damage him; or
the publication or exploitation of which would in his opinion be generally expected to encourage offensive, immoral or anti-social behaviour.
Subregulation 6
No appeal shall lie from a decision of the Registrar under paragraph (5) not to make a document or part of a document available for public inspection.