P.U.(A) 327/86
PATENTS REGULATIONS 1986
PART II - APPLICATION AND PROCEDURE FOR GRANT AND DURATION OF PATENT.
Regulation 27A. Request for modified substantive examination.
(1) A request for a modified substantive examination shall be made to the Registrar on Form 5A together with the payment of the prescribed fee within two years from the filing date of the application.
(2) Where an application is divided under regulation 19A more than two years from the filing date of the application, a further request for a modified substantive examination shall be made at the time of the filing of the request for the division of the application.
(3) A request for a modified substantive examination shall be accompanied by-
(a) a certified true copy--- of the patent or other title of industrial property protection granted to the applicant or his predecessor in title in the prescribed country or under the prescribed treaty or Convention, and where the patent or other title of industrial property protection is not in the English language, a certified translation in the English language thereof,
(b) where the description, claims or drawings of the invention granted a patent or other title of industrial property protection by the prescribed country or under the prescribed treaty or Convention are not, apart from matters of form, substantially the same as the description, claims or drawings of the invention claimed in the application, the amendments required for the purpose of bringing them into conformity.
(4) Where an application is deemed to be withdrawn under section 29A (5) of the Act, the Registrar shall inform the applicant in writing of that fact and shall state the reasons therefor.
(5) For the purposes of these Regulations-
"prescribed country" means Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom or the United States of America, as the case may require;
[Am. P.U.(A) 357/2002; Am P.U.(A) 222/2003]
*prescribed treaty or Convention" means the European Patent Convention.
