*[11B. Request for
examination.- **[(1) No application for a patent
shall be examined unless the applicant or any other interested
person makes a request in the prescribed manner for such examination
within the prescribed period;]
(2) [Omitted by Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005, section 11]
**[(3) In case of an application in respect of a claim for
a patent filed under sub-section (2) of section 5 before the
1st day of January, 2005 a request for its examination shall
be made in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed
period by the applicant or any other interested person;]
**[(4) In case the applicant or any other interested person
does not make a request for examination of the application
for a patent within the period as specified under sub-section
(1) or sub-section (3), the application shall be treated as
withdrawn by the applicant:]
**[Provided that-
(i) the applicant may, at any time after filing the application
but before the grant of a patent, withdraw the application
by making a request in the prescribed manner; and
(ii) in a case where secrecy direction has been issued under
section 35, the request for examination may be made within
the prescribed period from the date of revocation of the secrecy
direction.]
*[Inserted by Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002, section 9]
**[Substituted, modified by Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005,
section 11]
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