Marginal note:Interview with examiner
39 Only the following persons may have an interview with an examiner regarding an application for a patent:
(a) if, in respect of that application, a patent agent is appointed or there is a requirement under subsection 27(2) to appoint a patent agent,
(i) the patent agent who is appointed, and
(ii) with the permission of the patent agent who is appointed,
(A) if there is a single applicant, the applicant,
(B) if there is a single applicant and a document authorizing a foreign practitioner to have an interview with an examiner is signed by the applicant, that foreign practitioner,
(C) if there are joint applicants, the common representative, or
(D) if there are joint applicants and a document authorizing a foreign practitioner to have an interview with an examiner is signed by the common representative, that foreign practitioner; and
(b) in any other case,
(i) the applicant, if there is a single applicant, and
(ii) the common representative, if there are joint applicants.
- SOR/2021-131, s. 14
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