Ownership objection

Where a person, asserting a claim of ownership, objects to an invention that was not previously registered in their name and for which another person has filed a registration application with the Registration Authority, they must, simultaneously with the objection, themselves apply to register the patent and pay the fee for filing the application and the other related fees. The Registration Authority must, within ten days of the date of receipt of the objection, notify a copy of it — together with copies of the supporting documents and grounds — to the registration applicant. The applicant must, within twenty days of the date of notification, file their written response to the objection with the Registration Authority. Where the applicant remains silent regarding the objection or accepts it in writing, their request to register the patent shall be deemed withdrawn, and the Registration Authority shall notify the objector accordingly so that they may proceed to register the invention through the application filed simultaneously with the objection. Where the applicant does not accept the objection, the Registration Authority shall notify the objector within ten days, and the objector may, within twenty days of the date of notification, file their objection with the Board referred to in Article 23 of this Act and deliver the receipt thereof to the Registration Authority. In this case, examination of the patent application shall be suspended until the final disposition of the objection case; if the objection receipt is not submitted, the process of examining the original application shall continue. The said Board must examine the objection and issue an appropriate ruling within three months at most. The said period may be extended only once, by a maximum of a further three months.