Vol. 140, No. 51 — December 23, 2006

Regulations Amending the Integrated Circuit Topography Regulations

Statutory authority

Integrated Circuit Topography Act

Sponsoring department

Department of Industry

REGULATORY IMPACT ANALYSIS STATEMENT

For the Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement, see the Rules Amending the Patent Rules.

PROPOSED REGULATORY TEXT

Notice is hereby given that the Governor in Council, pursuant to section 27 of the Integrated Circuit Topography Act (see footnote a), proposes to make the annexed Regulations Amending the Integrated Circuit Topography Regulations.

Interested persons may make representations concerning the proposed Regulations within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. All such representations must cite the Canada Gazette, Part I, and the date of publication of this notice, and be addressed to Denis Simard, Canadian Intellectual Property Office, 50 Victoria Street, Place du Portage I, Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0C9 (tel.: 819-934-7594; fax: 819-953-6977; e-mail: Simard.Denis@ic.gc.ca).

Ottawa, December 14, 2006

MARY O'NEILL
Assistant Clerk of the Privy Council

REGULATIONS AMENDING THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TOPOGRAPHY REGULATIONS

AMENDMENTS

1. Section 3 of the Integrated Circuit Topography Regulations (see footnote 1) is replaced by the following:

3. (1) Correspondence intended for the Registrar or the Office shall be addressed to the "Registrar of Topographies".

(2) Correspondence addressed to the Registrar may be physically delivered to the Office during ordinary business hours of the Office and is considered to be received by the Registrar on the day of the delivery.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), if the correspondence is physically delivered to the Office outside of its ordinary business hours, it is considered to have been delivered to the Office during ordinary business hours on the day when the Office is next open for business.

(4) Correspondence addressed to the Registrar may be physically delivered to an establishment that is designated by the Registrar in the Canadian Patent Office Record as an establishment to which correspondence addressed to the Registrar may be delivered, during ordinary business hours of that establishment, and

(a) if the delivery is made to the establishment on a day that the Office is open for business, the correspondence is considered to be received by the Registrar on that day; and

(b) if the delivery is made to the establishment on a day that the Office is closed for business, the correspondence is considered to be received by the Registrar on the day when the Office is next open for business.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), if the correspondence is physically delivered to an establishment outside of ordinary business hours of the establishment, it is considered to have been delivered to that establishment during ordinary business hours on the day when the establishment is next open for business.

(6) Correspondence addressed to the Registrar may be sent at any time by electronic or other means of transmission specified by the Registrar in the Canadian Patent Office Record.

(7) For the purposes of subsection (6), if, according to the local time of the place where the Office is located, the correspondence is delivered on a day when the Office is open for business, it is considered to be received by the Registrar on that day.

(8) For the purposes of subsection (6), if, according to the local time of the place where the Office is located, the correspondence is delivered on a day when the Office is closed for business, it is considered to be received by the Registrar on the day when the Office is next open for business.

2. Section 27 of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

27. If an application has been made to the Federal Court under subsection 24(1) of the Act, the Registrar shall, at the request of any of the parties, transmit to that Court all material on file in the Office relating to the application.

3. Item 6 of the schedule to the Regulations is repealed.

4. Item 8 of the schedule to the Regulations is replaced by the following:

COMING INTO FORCE

5. These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.

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Footnote a

S.C. 1990, c. 37

Footnote 1

SOR/93-212

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