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The Patents Rules 2007
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32.—(1) A request under section 20A for the reinstatement of an application must be made before the end of the relevant period.
[F1(2) For this purpose the relevant period is twelve months beginning immediately after the date on which the application was terminated.]
(3) The request must be made on Patents Form 14.
(4) Where the comptroller is required to publish a notice under section 20A(5), it must be published in the journal.
(5) The applicant must file evidence in support of that request.
(6) Where that evidence does not accompany the request, the comptroller must specify a period within which the evidence must be filed.
(7) Where, on consideration of that evidence, the comptroller is not satisfied that a case for an order under section 20A has been made out, he must notify the applicant accordingly.
(8) The applicant may, before the end of the period of one month [F2beginning immediately after] the date of that notification, request to be heard by the comptroller.
(9) Where the applicant requests a hearing, the comptroller must give him an opportunity to be heard, after which the comptroller shall determine whether the request under section 20A shall be allowed or refused.
(10) Where the comptroller reinstates the application after a notice was published under paragraph (4), he must advertise in the journal the fact that he has reinstated the application.
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F1Rule 32(2) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Patents (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/892), rules 1(2), 8(a)
F2Words in rule 32(8) substituted (1.10.2011) by The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/2052), rules 1, 3, Sch. (with rule 4)
F3Rule 32(11) omitted (1.10.2016) by virtue of The Patents (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/892), rules 1(2), 8(b)
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