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by substituting for subsection (1) the following subsection:

“(1)  Where a patent application has been published under section 33d, upon receipt of a payment of the prescribed fee, the Registrar shall make available

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for public inspection in the prescribed manner the following information or document relating to a patent application to the extent that such information or document is in the possession of the Registrar—

the name, address and description of the applicant, and the name and address of his agent, if any;

the application number;

the filing date of the application, and if a right of priority is claimed, the priority date, the number of an earlier application, the name of a country in which the earlier application was filed, or where the earlier application is a regional or an international application, the name of the country for which and the office at which it was filed;

the particulars of the application including the description, claim or claims, drawings, if any, and the abstract and any amendments to the application, if any;

any change in ownership of the application and any reference to a licence contract relating to the application;

search and examination reports;

communications in respect of the patent application from the applicant to the Patent Registration

Office as determined by the Registrar; and

patent and non-patent related literature citations submitted by the applicant or any other person to the Patent Registration Office.”;

by deleting subsection (2);

by substituting for subsection (3) the following subsection:

“(3)  Where there is no request made by the applicant under paragraph 33d(1)(b), any person who intends to inspect the information or document relating to a patent application referred to in subsection (1) before the expiry of the eighteen months from the filing date, or if right of priority is claimed, the priority date of a patent application, shall make a request to the Registrar in the form as determined by the Registrar accompanied by—

a written permission of the applicant; and

a payment of the prescribed fee.”; and

in subsection (5), paragraph (6)(b) and subsection (9), by substituting for the words “made available for public inspection” the words “published under section 33d”.

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