Patent Rules

Marginal note:Application of certain provisions of former Rules

• 169 (1) Subject to subsection (3), sections 170, 171, 174, 175, 177, 181 and 183 to 186 of the former Rules continue to apply in respect of a category 1 application.

• Marginal note:Application of section 32 of former Rules

  (2) Section 32 of the former Rules continues to apply in respect of a category 1 application for which a notice of allowance was sent before October 30, 2019, other than such an application that is forfeited under subsection 73(1) of the Act, as it read immediately before October 1, 1989, and is subsequently restored.

• Marginal note:Photographs

  (3) Paragraphs 177(1)(a), (b), (e) and (h) of the former Rules do not apply in respect of photographs provided in respect of a category 1 application.

• Marginal note:Application of section 179 of former Rules

  (4) Section 179 of the former Rules continues to apply in respect of a category 1 application, except that the reference to “the filing date and number of each application in a country other than Canada on which the applicant bases the claim” in that section is to be read as a reference to “the filing date and the name of the country of filing of each application that was filed in a country other than Canada on which the claim is based”.