38. All or any of the prescribed renewal fees may be paid in advance.
Renewal fees
may be paid in
advance
39. An application for extension of time for payment of any renewal fee Extension of
shall be made in Form No. 20.
time for
payment
40. On due compliance with the terms of regulation 37, the Registrar Certificate of
shall issue a certificate in Form No. 21 that the prescribed fee has been payment
duly paid, and he shall cause to be entered in the register the fact that the
fee has been paid and the date of payment as stated on the certificate.
PART VIII
RESTORATION OF LAPSED
PATENTS
41. (1) An application under section thirty-three for the restoration of a Application
patent shall be made in Form No. 22 and shall be accompanied by
evidence by affidavit in support of the statements made in the
application.
(2) The Registrar shall direct the patentee to advertise the application (if
in compliance with subsection (2) of section thirty-three) in two
consecutive issues of the Patent Journal .
(As amended by F.G.N. No. 206 of 1959 and F.G.N. No. 55 of 1960)
42. (1) At any time within two months of the advertisement of the
application, any person may give notice of opposition thereto in Form
No. 23.
(2) Such notice shall be accompanied by a copy thereof together with a
statement, in duplicate, setting out fully the nature of the objector's
Notice of
opposition