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(4) The description set out in the application shall disclose the
invention in a manner which is sufficiently clear and complete to enable
a person having ordinary skill in the art to carry out the invention, and
shall indicate at least one mode known to the applicant in which the
invention can be performed.
(5) Where an invention refers to or involves the use of biological
material that is not available to the public and cannot be described in
the patent application in such a manner as to enable the invention to be
reproduced by a person skilled in the art, the description shall be regarded
as inadequate for the purposes of this Act unless —
(a) the biological material has been deposited with a depositary
institution recognised by the Minister no later than the date on
which the patent application was filed at the Office;
(b) the application as filed contains relevant information available
to the applicant on the characteristics of the biological material
deposited;
(c) the application states the name of the depository institution and
the deposit accession number; and
(d) other prescribed conditions regarding the formalities for the
deposit and the supply of samples of the deposited material are
complied with.
(6) For purposes of subsection 5 (a) an international depositary
authority recognised under the Budapest Treaty shall be recognised
without requiring a Minister’s decision to recognise it.
(7) A claim referred to in subsection (1) shall be clear and concise
and shall be fully supported by the description, and the description and
any drawings filed may be used to interpret the claim.
(8) An abstract referred to in subsection (1) shall not be taken into
account for the purpose of interpreting the scope of the protection but
shall merely serve as technical information.
13. (1) An application for a patent may, at any time before the patent
is granted, be withdrawn by the applicant.
(2) The applicant may, of his or her own initiative at any time before the
grant of a patent, amend or correct his or her application.
(3) The applicant shall not, in amending his or her application under
this section, include any material matter which was not disclosed in the
initial application as filed.
14. (1) An application for a patent shall be in respect of a single invention
or, where it is in respect of a group of inventions, the inventions shall be so
linked as to form a single general inventive concept or have a unity of
invention.
(2) The fact that a patent has been granted on an application that did not
comply with the requirement of unity of invention shall not be a ground for
the invalidation or revocation of the patent.
Withdrawal
and
amendment of
application
Unity of
invention