(6)
A refusal of an application for a patent shall not affect its filing date which shall
remain valid.
27.
(1)
(a)
Where the Controller has granted a patent, he shall allocate to it a
number in the sequential order of grant, which shall be referred to as the
publication number of the patent.
(b)
The particulars of a patent shall be recorded in the form specified
in the Sixth Schedule and shall contain, in addition to the
information indicated in paragraph (2), the date of publication of
the patent, the documents or references cited of the prior art, the
description, the claims and the drawings, if any.
(c)
The patent shall be deemed to be granted on the date the Controller
publishes a reference to the grant.
(2)
The publication of the reference to the grant of the patent shall include -
(a)
the publication number of the patent;
(b)
the name and address of the owner of the
(c)
the name and address of the inventor, except where he has asked not to
be named in the patent;
(d)
the name and address of the approved agent, if any;
(e)
the filing date;
(f)
where priority has been claimed and the claim has been accepted, a
statement of the priority, the priority date and the name of the country or
countries in which or for which the earlier application was filed;