Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 185

    The Commissioner, a Deputy Commissioner or an employee must not:

  (a)   prepare, or help to prepare:

  (i)   a specification; or

  (ii)   any other document relating to a specification (other than a document which is in an approved form);

    unless the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner or the employee is the inventor in respect of the specification; or

  (b)   search the records of the Patent Office otherwise than in his or her official capacity.

Penalty:   10 penalty units.