Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00455:section:3
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Provision Reference: s 3
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3  Definitions
  The following expressions are defined, for the purposes of this Act or of a particular Chapter of this Act, in the dictionary in Schedule 1:
1952 Act
application
approved form
associated
technology
Australia
  Australian continental shelf
  Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods
authority
basic application
Board
Budapest Treaty
certified
claim
commencing day
Commissioner
company
compensable person
  complete specification
  Convention applicant
  Convention application
Convention country
depositary institution
deposit requirements
  Deputy Commissioner
Designated Manager
Director
director
  Director‑General of IP Australia
  eligible importing country
eligible person
employee
examination
exclusive licensee
exploit
exploited for Crown purposes
Federal Court
file
foreign aircraft
foreign land vehicle
foreign vessel
  formalities check
  incorporated legal practice
  incorporated patent attorney
  infringement proceedings
innovation patent
  intellectual property advice
interested party
  international application
  international depositary authority
  international filing date
invention
legal practitioner
legal representative
licence
main invention
  New Zealand Commissioner of Patents
  New Zealand Patents Minister
  New Zealand patents official
nominated person
  non‑infringement declaration
Official Journal
patent
patentable invention
patent application
patent area
  patent attorney director
  patented pharmaceutical invention
patented process
patented product
patentee
patent of addition
Patent Office
patent request
patents work
PCT
PCT application
permit
  pharmaceutical product
  pharmaceutical substance
  PPI
  PPI compulsory licence
  PPI order
  PPI order applicant
  PPSA security interest
preferred means
  preliminary search and opinion
prescribed court
  prescribed depositary institution
prior art base
prior art information
priority date
prohibition order
  provisional specification
receiving Office
re‑examination
Register
registered
  registered patent attorney
  Registrar of Companies of New Zealand
  related company group
relevant authority
  relevant international application
relevant Minister
relevant proceedings
  rules relating to micro‑organisms
Safeguards Act
services
specification
standard patent
  Statute of Monopolies
supply
Territory
therapeutic use
this Act
TRIPS Agreement
work