Patents Act, 1992

Official Journal and publication of information.

100.—(1) The Controller shall issue periodically a journal to be known as the Patents Office Journal (which is referred to in this Act as “the Journal”) in which he shall include all matters which he is directed by this Act or otherwise by law to publish in the Journal and also such matters and information as appear to him to be useful or important in relation to patents or applications for patents and other matters for which he is responsible under this Act or otherwise by law and references in any enactment to the Official Journal of Industrial and Commercial Property shall each be construed as including a reference to the Journal.

(2) The Controller may prepare for publication and publish such matters, records and information as appear to him to be useful or important in relation to inventions, designs, patents, trade marks, copyright and patent and trade mark applications whether the matters, records or information originate within the State or elsewhere.

(3) The Controller shall make provision for the sale of copies of all documents which he is, by law, directed to issue or publish and may make such provision as he deems expedient for the sale of copies of other documents, information or records which he is by law authorized to publish.