1860
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 50

47. Upon such declarations being left, and such copies being delivered, the provisions of Regulations 29, 32, and 33 hereof shall apply to the case, and the further proceedings shall be regulated in accordance with such provisions as if they were herein repeated.

48. If the opponent does not leave statutory declarations in support of his opposition, the applicant may (if he desires so to do), within two months from the date of the first advertisement of the application for leave to amend, leave at the Office statutory declarations in support of his application, and on so leaving shall deliver to the opponent copies thereof.

49. Upon such declarations being left, and such copies being delivered, the provisions of Regulations 31, 32, and 33 hereof shall apply to the case, and further proceedings therein shall be regulated in accordance with such provisions as if they were herein repeated.

50. Where leave to amend is given, the applicant shall, if the Registrar so requires, and within a time to be limited by him, leave at the Office a new specification and drawings as amended, to be prepared in accordance with Regulations 4 and 16 to 20 hereof.

51. Every amendment of a specification shall be advertised forthwith by the Registrar in the Journal, and in such other manner (if any) as the Registrar may direct.

REGISTER OF PATENTS.

52. Upon the sealing of a patent the Registrar shall cause to be entered in the Register of Patents the name, address, and calling of the patentee as the grantee thereof, the title of the invention, the date of the patent, and the date of the grant thereof, together with the address for service.

53. The patent granted on any Convention application shall be entered in the register as dated of the date on which the first foreign application was made, and the payment of renewal fees and the expiration of the patent shall be reckoned as from the date of the first foreign application. The date of the application in New Zealand shall also be entered in the register.

54. If a patentee sends to the Registrar on the form No. 12 in the Second Schedule hereto notice of an alteration in his name or address or address for service, the Registrar shall cause the register to be altered accordingly, and may require the altered address for service to be in New Zealand.

55. Where a person becomes entitled by assignment, transmission, or other operation of law to a patent, or to any interest therein, as mortgagee, licensee, or otherwise, a request for the entry in the register of his name as proprietor of the patent, or of a notice of such interest, as the case may be, shall be addressed to the Registrar, and left at the Office.

56. Such request shall be in the form No. 13 or No. 14 in the Second Schedule hereto, as the case may require, and shall in the case of an individual be made and signed by the person requiring the entry to be made, or by his agent, and in the case of a body corporate by its agent.

57. Every such request shall state the name, address, and calling of the person claiming to be entitled to the patent, or to any interest therein, as the case may be, and the particulars of the assignment, transmission, or other operation of law, by virtue of which he claims to have entered in the register his name as proprietor or a notice of such interest, so as to show the manner in which, and the person or persons to whom, the patent, or such interest therein as aforesaid, has been assigned or transmitted.

58. Every assignment, and every other document containing, giving effect to, or being evidence of the transmission of a patent, or affecting the proprietorship thereof, as claimed by such request, except such documents as are matters of record, shall, unless the Registrar in his discretion otherwise directs, be produced to him together with the request, and he may call for such other proof of title as he may require for his satisfaction. As to a document which is a matter of record, an official or certified copy thereof shall in like manner be produced to the Registrar.

59. There shall also be left with the request an attested copy of the assignment or other document or copy above required to be produced.

60. The notice of interest in the patent of any person other than the proprietor entered in the register in pursuance of the request shall be such as may appear applicable to the circumstances of the particular case.

61. Where it is desired to enter in the register a notification of any document purporting to affect the proprietorship of a patent, an attested copy of such document shall be left at the Office with a request in the form No. 15 in the Second Schedule hereto that a notification thereof may be entered in the register. The accuracy of such copy shall be certified as the Registrar may direct, and the original documents shall at the same time be produced and left at the Office if required for further verification.

62. Upon the issue of a certificate of payment under Regulation 39 hereof the Registrar shall cause to be entered in the register a record of the date of payment of the fee on such certificate.

63. If a patentee fails to make any prescribed payment within the prescribed time or any enlargement thereof duly granted there shall be duly entered in the register a notification of such failure.

64. The Register of Patents shall be open to the inspection of the public on every day on which the Office is open to the public during the time it is so open, except at such times when the register is required for any purpose of official use.

CORRECTION OF CLERICAL ERRORS.

65. A request for the correction of a clerical error in or in connection with an application for a patent, or in any patent or specification, or in any matter which is entered upon the Register of Patents, shall be made in the form No. 16 in the Second Schedule hereto.

CERTIFICATES.

66. A request for a certificate of the Registrar as to any entry, matter, or thing which he is authorized by the said Act or any of these regulations to make or do shall be made in the form No. 17 in the Second Schedule hereto. Certified copies of any entry in the register, or certified copies of, or extracts from, patents, specifications, disclaimers, affidavits, statutory declarations, and other public documents in the Office, or of or from registers and other books kept there, may be furnished by the Registrar on payment of the prescribed fee.

LOST PATENT.

67. An application for a duplicate of a patent which has been lost or destroyed shall be made in