Patent Rules

152 (1) For an application deemed to be abandoned under section 73 of the Act to be reinstated, the applicant must, in respect of each failure to take an action referred to in subsection 73(1) of the Act or section 151, make a request for reinstatement to the Commissioner, take the action that should have been taken in order to avoid the abandonment and pay the fee set out in item 7 of Schedule II, before the expiry of the 12-month period after the date on which the application is deemed to be abandoned as a result of that failure.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), if an application is deemed to be abandoned for failure to pay a fee referred to in subsection 3(4) or (7), for the applicant to take the action that should have been taken in order to avoid the abandonment, the applicant must, before the expiry of the time prescribed by subsection (1), either

• (a) pay the applicable standard fee, or

• (b) file a small entity declaration in respect of the application in accordance with section 3.01 and pay the applicable small entity fee.