Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00944:reg:5:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00944
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 5/11)
Character Range: 345994–348633

comply or accord; or
 (b) as having been filed, but direct the person from whom it was received to do such things as are necessary to ensure that the document will so comply or accord.
 (4) If the Commissioner gives a direction under paragraph (2)(b) and the person to whom the direction was given does not comply with that direction within 2 months from the day when it was given, the Commissioner must treat the document as not having been filed.

22.16A  Consequences for evidence not meeting filing requirements
 (1) If, in relation to evidence received at the Patent Office, a person does not comply with a direction under section 214C of the Act, the Commissioner may treat the evidence:
 (a) as not having been filed and notify the person, including in the notification a statement indicating how the direction has not been complied with; or
 (b) as having been filed, but direct the person to do such things as are necessary to ensure that the direction is complied with.
 (2) If the Commissioner gives a direction under paragraph (1)(b) and the person does not comply with the direction within 2 months of the day it was given, the Commissioner must treat the evidence as not having been filed.

22.17  Incapacity of certain persons
 (1) In this regulation:
mental dysfunction means a disturbance or defect, to a severely disabling degree, of perceptual interpretation, comprehension, reasoning, learning, judgment, memory, motivation, or emotion.
 (2) If a person is incapable of doing anything required or permitted by the Act or these Regulations to be done because of infancy or of mental dysfunction or physical disability or disease, a court may, on the application of a person acting on behalf of the incapable person or of another person interested in the doing of the thing:
 (a) do that thing; or
 (b) appoint a person to do the thing;
in the name, and on behalf, of the incapable person.
 (3) A thing done in the name of, and on behalf of, an incapable person is taken to have been done by that person as if the person had not been incapable when the thing was done.

22.19  Copies of certain documents to be supplied
  A copy of a document that:
 (a) affects the ownership of a patent or licence; and
 (b) has been witnessed;
must be filed by a person who seeks to have the Commissioner consider the document for the purposes of the Act or these regulations.

22.20  International applications and the Patent Office
  If, for the purposes of the PCT, the Patent Office is:
 (a) a receiving Office; or
 (b) an International Searching Authority; or
 (c) an International Preliminary Examining Authority;
the Commissioner