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2.7.3.5 Deposit Requirements Affecting the Priority Date of a Divisional Application

Date Published

Chapter 3 of the Regulations specifies that if a divisional application relies on the deposit requirements to satisfy sec 40, then the application can only claim priority from the parent or other ancestor if the deposit requirements for that micro-organism were satisfied in the parent or other ancestor at the time the divisional application was filed.

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