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6. Leaving and serving documents. - (l) Any application, notice or other document authorised or required to be filed, left, made or given at the Patent Office, or to the Controller or to any other person under the Act or these rules, may be sent by hand or by a letter addressed to the Controller at the appropriate office or to the person through post or registered post or speed post or courier service and if it is sent by post, or registered post or speed post or courier service it shall be deemed to have been filed, left, made or given at the time when the letter containing the same would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post or registered post or speed post or courier service, as the case may be. In proving such sending, it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter was properly addressed and mailed. If the documents sent through Tele-Fax, are clear and fully legible, they shall also be accepted provided that the original document corresponding to the one sent by Tele-Fax is submitted to the appropriate office within fifteen days from the date of receipt of the document so faxed.

(2) Any written communication addressed to a patentee at his address as it appears on the register of patents or at his address for service given under rule 5, or to any applicant or opponent in any proceedings under the Act or these rules, at the address appearing on the application or notice of opposition or given for service, shall be deemed to be properly addressed.

(3) All notices and all written communications addressed to a patentee, or to any applicant or opponent in any proceedings under the Act or these rules, and all documents forwarded to the patentee or to the said applicant or opponent shall, except when they are sent by special messenger, be sent by registered post acknowledgment due.

(4) The date of a notice or a written communication addressed to a patentee or to any applicant or opponent in any proceedings under the Act and these rules shall be the date of dispatch of the said notice or written communication, as the case may be, unless otherwise specified under the Act or these rules.

(5) In case of postal delay in receipt of a document or a communication sent by the patent office to a party to any proceedings under the Act or these rules, the delay in transmitting or resubmitting a document to the patent office or doing any act by the party may be condoned by the Controller if a petition for such condonation of delay is made by the party to the Controller immediately after the receipt of the document or a communication along with a statement stating the circumstances of the fact and evidence in support of the statement, provided that the delay thus condoned by the Controller shall not exceed the period between the date on which the party was supposed to have received the document or communication by ordinary course of mail and the actual date of receipt of the same.

 

 

 

 

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