Patent Act — P-4 12
Rules and regulations 12 (1) The Governor in Council may make rules or regulations (a) respecting the form and contents of applications for patents; (a.1) defining drawing for the purposes of this Act and respecting the circumstances in which certain drawings may be furnished as part of applications for patents; (a.2) respecting abstracts in applications for patents, including authorizing the Commissioner to amend or replace abstracts; (a.3) respecting the consequences of a failure to comply with a notice given under subsection 27(7); (a.4) respecting the processing and examination of applications for patents; (b) respecting the form of the Register of Patents and of the indexes thereto; (c) respecting the registration of transmissions, disclaimers, judgments or other documents relating to a patent or an application for a patent; (c.1) respecting the recording of transfers of patents or applications for patents; (d) respecting the form and contents of any certificate issued pursuant to this Act; (e) prescribing the fees or the manner of determining the fees that may be charged in respect of the filing of applications for patents or the taking of other proceedings under this Act or under any rule or regulation made pursuant to this Act, or in respect of any services or the use of any facilities provided thereunder by the Commissioner or any person employed in the Patent Office; (f) prescribing the fees or the manner of determining the fees that shall be paid to maintain in effect an application for a patent or to maintain the rights accorded by a patent; (g) respecting the payment of any prescribed fees, including the time when and the manner in which such fees shall be paid, the time at which such fees are deemed to be paid, the additional fees that may be charged for the late payment of such fees and the circumstances in which any fees previously paid may be refunded in whole or in part; (g.1) authorizing the Commissioner to waive, subject to any prescribed terms and conditions, the payment of a fee if the Commissioner is satisfied that the circumstances justify it; (h) for carrying into effect the terms of any treaty, convention, arrangement or engagement that subsists between Canada and any other country; (i) for carrying into effect, notwithstanding anything in this Act, the Patent Cooperation Treaty done at Washington on June 19, 1970, including any amendments, modifications and revisions made from time to time to which Canada is a party; (i.1) for carrying into effect the Patent Law Treaty, done at Geneva on June 1, 2000, including any amendments and revisions made from time to time to which Canada is a party; (j) [Repealed, 2018, c. 27, s. 250] (j.001) [Repealed, 2018, c. 27, s. 259] (j.002) [Repealed, 2018, c. 27, s. 259] (j.01) respecting the circumstances in which an applicant, patentee or other person may or must be represented in business before the Patent Office by a patent agent whose licence is not suspended or by another person; (j.1) respecting the submission, including in electronic form and by electronic means, of documents and information to the Commissioner or the Patent Office, including the time at which they are deemed to be received by the Commissioner or the Patent Office; (j.2) respecting the use of electronic means for the purposes of subsection 8.1(2); (j.3) respecting the withdrawal of an application for a patent and, for the purposes of subsections 10(4) and (5), prescribing the date, or the manner of determining the date, on or before which a request for priority or an application for a patent is to be withdrawn; (j.31) respecting additions to the specification and additions of drawings for the purposes of subsection 28.01(1); (j.4) respecting requests for priority, including (i) the period within which priority is to be requested, (ii) the information and documents that are to be submitted in support of requests for priority, (iii) the period within which that information and those documents ar