Patent Regulations, 1996 (LI 1616)Regulation 16—Division of Application.(1) Where the Registrar finds that the requirement of unity of invention is not complied with, the applicant shall have the right to file one or more divisional applications during a period of three months following the communication to him of that finding.(2) The right of the applicant referred to in section 14 (2) of the Law to file, on his own initiative, one or more divisional applications may be exercised at any time up to the time when the applications from which a divisional application is derived is in order for grant.(3) Priority documents and copies of any required translations of them that have been submitted to the Registrar in respect of the application from which one or more divisional applications are derived shall be considered as having been submitted also in respect of all the divisional applications. |
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