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648.   Amendment of specification by registrar

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

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CHAPTER 4
AMENDMENT OF SPECIFICATION

648.   Amendment of specification by registrar

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    (1)   An applicant or a patentee may at any time, by request in writing left with the Registrar, seek leave to amend his or her specification, including drawings forming part thereof, by way of disclaimer, correction, or explanation, stating the nature of, and the reasons for, the proposed amendment.

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    (2)   The request and the nature of the proposed amendment shall be advertised in the prescribed manner, and at any time within one month from its first advertisement any person may give notice to the Registrar of opposition to the amendment.

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    (3)   Where such a notice is given the Registrar shall give notice of the opposition to the person making the request, and shall hear and decide the case.

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    (4)   Where no notice of opposition is given, or the person so giving notice of opposition does not appear, the Registrar shall determine whether and subject to what conditions, if any, the amendment ought to be allowed.

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    (5)   The decision of the Registrar in either case shall be subject to an appeal to the Crown Attorney, who shall, if required, hear the person making the request to amend and, where notice of opposition has been given, the person giving the notice, if he or she is, in the opinion of the Crown Attorney, entitled to be heard in opposition to the request, and, where there is no opposition, the Registrar, and may make an order determining whether and subject to what conditions (if any) the amendments ought to be allowed.

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    (6)   No amendment shall be allowed that would make the specification, as amended, claim an invention substantially larger than or substantially different from the invention claimed by the specification as it stood before amendment.

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    (7)   Leave to amend shall be conclusive as to the right of the party to make the amendment allowed, except in case of fraud; and the amendment shall be advertised in the prescribed manner, and shall in all courts and for all purposes be deemed to form part of the specification.

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    (8)   This article shall not apply when and so long as any action for infringement or proceeding before the Court for the revocation of a patent is pending.

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