Patent Rules

Marginal note:Final fee paid before October 30, 2019

229 If, before October 30, 2019, the applicant of an application for a patent for which the filing date is before that date, paid, in respect of that application, the applicable final fee set out in item 6 of Schedule II to the former Rules and that fee was not refunded before that date,

• (a) the reference to “on or before the day on which the final fee set out in item 14 of Schedule 2 is paid or, if the final fee is refunded, on or before the day on which the final fee is paid again” in subsection 73(5), paragraph 100(2)(a), section 105 and paragraph 106(a) is to be read, in respect of that application, as a reference to “on or before the day on which the applicable final fee set out in item 6 of Schedule II to the former Rules is paid or, if the final fee is refunded, on or before the day on which the final fee set out in item 14 of Schedule 2 is paid”; and

• (b) the reference to “after the day on which the final fee set out in item 14 of Schedule 2 is paid or, if the final fee is refunded, after the day on which the final fee is paid again” in section 127 is to be read as “after the day on which the applicable final fee set out in item 6 of Schedule II to the former Rules is paid or, if the final fee is refunded, after the day on which the final fee set out in item 14 of Schedule 2 is paid”.