Singapore Statutes Online Subsidiary Legislation Supplement published on15 Oct 2009
Patents (Amendment) Rules 2009
Table of Contents
Enacting Formula
1 Citation and commencement
2 Amendment of rule 2
3 Amendment of First Schedule
No. S 501
PATENTS ACT (CHAPTER 221)
PATENTS (AMENDMENT) RULES 2009
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 115 of the Patents Act, the Minister for Law, after consulting with the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, hereby makes the following Rules:
Citation and commencement
1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the Patents (Amendment) Rules 2009 and shall, with the exception of rule 3(b), come into operation on 22nd October 2009.
(2) Rule 3(b) shall come into operation on 1st January 2010.
Amendment of rule 2
2. Rule 2(3) of the Patents Rules (R 1) is amended by deleting the words “and the Danish Patent and Trademark Office” and substituting the words “, the Danish Patent and Trademark Office and the Hungarian Patent Office”.
Amendment of First Schedule
Singapore Statutes Online Subsidiary Legislation Supplement published on15 Oct 2009
3. Item 56B in the First Schedule to the Patents Rules is amended —
(a) by deleting “2,340” in the second column of paragraph (a) and substituting “3,780”;
(b) by deleting “2,060” in the second column of paragraph (b) and substituting “2,680”;
(c) by deleting “2,515” in the second column of paragraph (c) and substituting “3,100”; and
(d) by inserting, immediately after paragraph (c), the following paragraph:
“ (d) where the Examiner is the Hungarian Patent Office
2,680
”.
Made this 13th day of October 2009.
CHAN LAI FUNG Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law, Singapore.
[LAW 18/001/001; AG/LEG/SL/221/2002/1 Vol. 8]