Patents Act, 1964
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Government orders as to convention countries. |
93.—(1) The Government may, with a view to the fulfilment of any treaty, convention, arrangement or engagement with the Government of a foreign country concerning the protection of inventions, by order declare that any country specified in the order is a convention country for the purposes of this Act, and that country shall be a convention country for the purposes of this Act while the order remains in force with respect to that country: | |
Provided that a declaration may be made as aforesaid for the purposes either of all or of some only of the provisions of this Act, and a country in the case of which a declaration made for the purposes of some only of the provisions of this Act is in force shall be deemed to be a convention country for the purposes of those provisions only. | ||
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 96 of this Act the Minister may, for the purposes of convention applications, make rules— | ||
(a) prescribing particular time limits for doing anything required by this Act to be done in connection with such applications; | ||
(b) for regulating the procedures to be observed in connection with making and prosecuting such applications. | ||
(3) The Government may, by order, revoke or amend an order under this section including an order under this subsection. | ||
(4) In this section “foreign country” includes any territory for the foreign relations of which any state (being a state which is a party to any international agreement for the mutual protection of inventions to which the State is a party) considers itself responsible. |