The Patents (Amendment) Rules 1993

6.  In rule 94 of the principal Rules—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute the following—

“(1) A person filing at, or sending to, the Patent Office a document other than a Patents Form, or any party to any proceedings to which the document relates, may, within fourteen days of the filing or sending of the document, request the comptroller (giving reasons for the request) to direct that the document or any part of it specified by him be treated as confidential, and the comptroller may, at his discretion, so direct; and, while the request is being considered by the comptroller, that document or part thereof (hereinafter referred to as the relevant document) shall not be open to public inspection.”;

(b) in paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), before the word “document” where it appears in each case, insert the word “relevant”; and

(c) in paragraph (5), before the word “document” where it appears for the second time insert the word “relevant”.