Patent Rules

Marginal note:Exception — national phase entry date

• 210 (1) For the purposes of these Rules, if the applicant of an international application for which the international filing date, as defined in section 141, precedes October 30, 2019 has, before October 30, 2019, complied with the requirements of subsection 58(1) and, if applicable, subsection 58(2) of the former Rules, the national phase entry date in respect of that application is the date on which the applicant complied with those requirements, or, if the applicant complied with those requirements on different dates, the latest of those dates.

• Marginal note:Fee considered paid

  (2) If the Commissioner has, under section 190 of these Rules or subsection 26(3) of the former Rules, extended the time for the payment of a fee referred to in subsection 3(5) or (7) of the former Rules, and the fee is paid before the end of the extended period, for the purposes of subsection (1), that fee is considered to have been paid on the day on which the amount of the small entity fee was paid.

• Marginal note:Exception — national phase entry date

  (3) In these Rules, if the applicant of an international application for which the international filing date, as defined in section 141, precedes October 30, 2019 has, on or after October 30, 2019, complied with the requirements of subparagraphs 154(3)(a)(ii) to (iv) and paragraph 154(3)(b), the national phase entry date in respect of that application is the date on which the applicant complied with those requirements, or, if the applicant complied with those requirements on different dates, the latest of those dates.

• Marginal note:Small entity declaration

  (4) For the purpose of subsection (3), an applicant is not considered to have paid the fee referred to in clause 154(3)(a)(iii)(A) or 154(3)(b)(i)(A) or (ii)(A) until the small entity declaration has been filed.