S.L. 417.1 Art. 28Details concerning appointment of agents. Article 61.

(1) The appointment of an agent under article 61 of the

Act shall be filed with the Office in a separate communication

(hereinafter referred to as a "power of attorney") signed by the applicant, owner or other interested person and indicating the name and address of the agent.

(2) (a) A single power of attorney shall be sufficient even where it relates to more than one application or patent of the same person, or to one or more applications and one or more patents of the same person, provided that all applications and patents concerned are identified in the single power of attorney.

(b) A single power of attorney shall also be sufficient even where it relates, subject to any exception indicated by the appointing person, to all existing and future applications or patents of that person.

(c) The Office may require that, where that single power of attorney is filed on paper or as otherwise permitted by the Office under regulation 6, a separate copy thereof be filed for each application and patent to which it relates.

(3) If a power of attorney is not in one of the official languages of the Office, it shall be accompanied by a translation.

(4) Where one or more of the requirements prescribed in article 61 of the Act or in this regulation are not complied with, the Office shall invite the assignee of the application, applicant, owner or other interested person to comply with any such requirement within two months from the date of this invitation: Provided that where no invitation has been made because indications allowing the applicant, owner or other interested person to be contacted by the Office have not been filed, the time limit for compliance with such requirement shall be three months from the date on which the procedure for this invitation was commenced.