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Patent Rules

Version of section 172 from 2006-03-22 to 2007-06-01:

  •  (1) The Commissioner shall refuse to take cognizance of any document submitted to the Commissioner that is not in the English or French language unless the applicant submits to the Commissioner a translation of the document into one of those languages.

  • (2) Where the applicant provides a translation of a document in accordance with subsection (1) and the Commissioner believes on reasonable grounds that the translation is not accurate, the Commissioner shall requisition the applicant to provide a statement by the translator to the effect that, to the best of the translator’s knowledge, the translation is complete and faithful.

  • (3) The text matter of the abstract, the description, the drawings and the claims, individually and all together, shall be wholly in English or wholly in French.

  • SOR/99-291, s. 16

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