Patent Rules

Marginal note:Prescribed date — withdrawn application

192 If a category 3 application is withdrawn before October 30, 2019, for the purposes of subsection 10(5) of the Act, the prescribed date is, despite section 18 of these Rules, the day that is two months before the expiry date of the confidentiality period referred to in subsection 10(2) of the Act or, if the Commissioner is able to stop the technical preparations to open the application to public inspection at a subsequent date preceding the expiry of that period, that subsequent date.