Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00455:section:50
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00455
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 50
Character Range: 70955–71762

50  Application or grant may be refused in certain cases
 (1) The Commissioner may refuse to accept a request and specification relating to a standard patent, or to grant a standard patent:
 (a) for an invention the use of which would be contrary to law; or
 (b) on the ground that the specification claims as an invention:
 (i) a substance that is capable of being used as food or medicine (whether for human beings or animals and whether for internal or external use) and is a mere mixture of known ingredients; or
 (ii) a process producing such a substance by mere admixture.
 (2) The Commissioner may refuse to accept a specification relating to a standard patent containing a claim that includes the name of a person as the name, or part of the name, of the invention so far as claimed in that claim.