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PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 143A

Ceasing of innovation patents

    An innovation patent ceases if:

  (a)   the fee for filing the request and accompanying specification relating to an application for an innovation patent is not paid in accordance with the regulations; or

  (b)   after an examination of the patent has been requested under paragraph   101A(b), the patentee does not pay the prescribed fee for the examination within the prescribed period; or

  (c)   the Commissioner does not make a decision under paragraph   101E(1)(a) within the period prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph; or

  (d)   the patentee does not pay a renewal fee for the patent within the prescribed period; or

  (e)   the patentee does not comply with a direction of the Commissioner under section   106 within the time allowed by the Commissioner under that section.


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