Patents Act, 1992
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Effect of priority right. |
27.—(1) The right of priority shall have the following effect, namely, the date of priority shall be regarded as being the date of filing of the patent application for the purposes of subsections (2) and (3) of section 11 and section 16 (2). | |
(2) Where a patent application is filed and the priority of a previous application is claimed under section 26 , then, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the patent application and any patent granted in pursuance of it shall not be invalidated by reason only of the fact that any subject-matter disclosed in the previous application was made available to the public at any time after the date of filing of the previous application. |