Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsWhat the Commissioner must do in examining a patent
(1) If the Commissioner decides, or is asked, to examine an innovation patent under section 101A, the Commissioner must:
(a) examine the complete specification relating to the patent to ascertain the matters set out in subsection (2); and
(b) report on those matters.
Matters for examination and report
(2) The matters in this subsection are whether:
(a) the specification complies with subsections 40(2) to (4); and
(b) the invention, so far as claimed, complies with paragraphs 18(1A)(a), (b) and (c); and
(c) the invention is a patentable invention under subsections 18(2) and (3); and
(d) the use of the invention would not be contrary to law; and
(e) the patent does not claim as an invention a substance that is capable of being used as food or medicine (whether for human beings or animals and whether for internal or external use) and is a mere mixture of known ingredients; and
(f) the patent does not claim as an invention a process producing such a substance by mere admixture; and
(g) the patent does not contain a claim that includes the name of a person as the name, or part of the name, of the invention so far as it is claimed in that claim; and
(h) the patent does not claim an invention that is the same as an invention that is the subject of a patent and is made by the same inventor, where the relevant claim or claims in respect of each patent have the same priority date or dates; and
(ha) each claim in the complete specification has a priority date that is before the day this paragraph commences; and
(i) the complete specification complies with such other matters (if any) as are prescribed for the purpose of this paragraph.
Note: Paragraph 101B(2)(ha) was inserted by the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Productivity Commission Response Part 2 and Other Measures) Act 2020 .