(f)
(fA)
(ii)
if—
(i)
(ii)
abstract referred to in Article 3 (2) of the Patent Cooperation Treaty shall be deemed to be a complete
specification; and
section 32 (5) shall not apply;
the international application is a convention application;
the applicant has complied with Rule 17.1 of the
regulations made under the Patent Co-operation
Treaty; and
(iii)
the priority document referred to in the said Rule 17.1 is
a prescribed document for the purposes of section 35
(2),the applicant shall be deemed to have furnished a
copy of the priority document within the prescribed
period referred to in section 35 (2);
if the first-mentioned application contemplated in section 37 is
the national phase of an international application, the date on
which that application was lodged at the patent office shall be
the international filing date accorded in terms of the Patent Cooperation Treaty;
(g)
section 38 shall not apply;
(h)
the period of 18 months from the date of the application
shall, for the purposes of section 40, be a period of 12 months
from the date on which the applicant complies with section
43E;
(i)
section 43 (3) shall not apply but, when the applicant has
complied with section 43E and the international application has
been published in terms of Article 21 of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the national phase of the international
application shall be open to public inspection as provided in
section 43 (1);
(j)
section 43 (4) shall not apply;
(jA)
the date of application of the national phase of the
international application shall, for the purposes of
section 46 be the international filing date accorded in
terms of the Patent Co-operation Treaty;
(k)
any correction or rectification of any document made in terms
of the regulations made under the Patent Co-operation Treaty
shall be deemed to be a correction or amendment made in
terms of section 50;
(l)
(i)
(m)
if an application for amendment of the national phase of
the international application is made before publication
in terms of section 42, the application for amendment
shall not be advertised as contemplated in section 51
(2);
any amendment made in terms of—
(i)
Article 19 of the Patent Co-operation Treaty and which
does not go beyond the disclosure in the international
application as filed; or