Thursday, March 3, 2011

Patent Revocation

Revocation 

Any party, on application to the Registrar, may seek to revoke a patent on grounds including the following:



  • the invention is not a patentable invention;
  • the patent was granted to a person who is not entitled to the grant;
  • the specification does not disclose the invention clearly and completely for it to be performed by a person skilled in the art;
  • the matter disclosed in the specification extends beyond that disclosed in the patent application as filed;
  • the amendment or correction to patent application or patent should not have been allowed;
  • the non-disclosure/inaccurate disclosure of prescribed material information;
  • the patent was obtained on any misrepresentation;
  • the patent was obtained fraudulently;
  • the patent is one of two or more patents for the same invention having the same priority date and filed by the same party or his successor in title.

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