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CHAPTER V
Provisions as to Patents after Grant
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Term of patent.
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36.—(1) A patent shall take effect on the date on which notice of its grant is published in the Journal and, subject to subsection (2), shall continue in force until the end of the period of twenty years beginning with the date of filing of the patent application.
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(2) A patent shall lapse at the end of the period prescribed for payment of any renewal fee if the fee is not paid within that period or within that period as extended under this section.
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(3) The period prescribed for payment of any renewal fee shall be extended by such period, not being a period of more than six months, as may be specified in a request made in that behalf by or on behalf of the proprietor of the patent to the Controller if the request is made and the prescribed additional fee paid before the expiration of the period of extension so specified.
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(4) The Minister may by order alter the period for which a patent shall remain in force for the purpose of giving effect to a provision of any international treaty, convention or agreement relating to the term of protection of a patent to which the State is or proposes to become a party.
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