Hearings manual
This Manual provides guidance on the law and procedure concerning patent and design right hearings.
We update this manual regularly to include changes in law and practice. Changes are indicated by a line in the margin, and are summarised in the Schedule of Amendments in the Preface.
- Contents
and Introduction
(131Kb) - Chapter
1: Basic Legal Principles
(173Kb) - Chapter 2: Inter
Partes Procedures
(212Kb) - Chapter
3: Evidence
(151Kb) - Chapter 4: Inter Partes Hearings
(146Kb) - Chapter
5: Inter Partes Decisions
(186Kb) - Chapter 6: Ex Parte
Hearings
(88Kb) - Chapter
7: Appeals
(68Kb) - Chapter 8: Miscellaneous
(54Kb) - Table
of Cases
(72Kb) - Index
(88Kb)
