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Versions of s. 7(1)

P-4 — Patent Act · 2 versions · View current text

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2017-09-21 to present available View Source
    No officer or employee of the Patent Office shall buy, sell, acquire or traffic in any invention, patent orpatent, right to a patent, certificate of supplementary protection or right to such a certificate, or any interest therein,in any of them, and every purchase, sale, assignment, acquisition or transfer of any invention,of patentthem, or right to a patent, orof any interest therein,in any of them, made by or to anysuch an officer or employee is void.void or, in Quebec, null.
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    No officer or employee of the Patent Office shall buy, sell, acquire or traffic in any invention, patent, right to a patent, certificate of supplementary protection or right to such a certificate, or any interest in any of them, and every purchase, sale, acquisition or transfer of any of them, or of any interest in any of them, made by or to such an officer or employee is void or, in Quebec, null.

  2. 2002-12-31 to present View Source

    No officer or employee of the Patent Office shall buy, sell, acquire or traffic in any invention, patent or right to a patent, or any interest therein, and every purchase, sale, assignment, acquisition or transfer of any invention, patent or right to a patent, or any interest therein, made by or to any officer or employee is void.