Regulation 45D. Examination for patent agents. (PATENTS REGULATIONS 1986

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P.U.(A) 327/86
PATENTS REGULATIONS 1986

PART VI A- PATENTS AGENTS

Regulation 45D. Examination for patent agents.

(1) For the purposes of regulation 45C(2)(c), the board of Examiners shall conduct an examination which shall consist of the following subjects:

(a) technology;

(b) Malaysian patent law and practice;

(d) foreign industrial property law and practice.

(2) An application for registration as a candidate for the examination specified in subregulation (1) shall be made to the Board of Examiners of Form 18A together with the payment of the prescribed fee.

(3) An application under subregulation (2) shall be sent to the Secretary to the Board of xaminers at the Patent Registration Office on or before the date determined by the board of Examiners for the submission of such applications.

(4) A candidate shall be required to sit for each of the subjects specified in subregulation (1) at a sitting of the examination.

(5) A candidate who has sat for and failed to pass any of the subjects specified in subregulation (1) may, if he is dissatisfied with his result appeal to the Secretary-General for re-scrutiny of the results within fourteen days from the date of the notification of such results together with the payment of the prescribed fee.

(6) Upon receipt of an appeal under subregulation (5), the Secretariat General shall consider the appeal and make a decision of thereon.

(7) The decision of the Secretary-General shall he final and conclusive.

(8) A candidate who has sat for and failed to pass any or all of the subjects specified in subregulation (1) at an examination may apply to re-sit such subject or subjects, as the case may be, at the next sitting of the examination and such application shall be made to the Board or Examiners on Form 18B together with the payment of the prescribed fee.

(9) Any candidate who has failed to pass all of the subjects specified in Subregulation (1) after three attempts shall be deemed to have failed the overall examination and subregulations (5), (6), (7) and (8) shall not apply thereto.

(10) Any candidate who is deemed to have failed the overall examination under subregulation (9) may re-apply to he registered as a candidate under subregulation (2).