Patent Rules (SOR/96-423)

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Regulations are current to 2013-05-26 and last amended on 2011-03-03. Previous Versions

109. (1) Where a notice has been filed with the Commissioner pursuant to subsection 104(4) in respect of an application, the Commissioner, upon the request of any person that an independent expert be nominated and with the agreement of the applicant, shall within a reasonable time nominate a person as an independent expert for the purposes of that application.
(2) If the Commissioner and the applicant cannot agree on the nomination of an independent expert within a reasonable time after the request is made, the notice of the applicant referred to in subsection 104(4) is deemed never to have been filed.

110. (1) Where a notice has been filed with the Commissioner pursuant to subsection 104(4) in respect of an application, until a patent is issued on the basis of the application or the application is refused, or is abandoned and no longer subject to reinstatement, or is withdrawn, a request pursuant to section 107 may only be filed by an independent expert nominated by the Commissioner in accordance with section 109.
(2) Where the Commissioner makes a certification pursuant to subsection 107(2) in respect of an independent expert nominated by the Commissioner, the Commissioner shall send a copy of the request together with the certification to the applicant and to the person who requested the nomination of the independent expert.

Sequence Listings

111. (1) If an application contains disclosure of a nucleotide or amino acid sequence other than a sequence identified as forming a part of the prior art, the description shall contain, in respect of that sequence, a sequence listing in electronic form, and both the sequence listing and the electronic form shall comply with the PCT sequence listing standard.
(2) If an application originally filed without a sequence listing is amended to include a sequence listing, the applicant shall file a statement to the effect that the listing does not go beyond the disclosure in the application as filed.
(3) If a sequence listing initially filed in paper form or in an electronic form that does not comply with the PCT sequence listing standard is replaced by a sequence listing in an electronic form that does comply with that standard, the applicant shall file a statement to the effect that the replacement listing does not go beyond the disclosure in the application as filed.