S.L. 417.1 Art. 34Request for registration of change in name or address.

(1) Where there is no change in the person of the applicant or owner but there is a change in his name or address, a request for registration of the change may be made in a communication signed by the applicant or owner and containing the following indications:

(a) an indication to the effect that registration of a change in name or address is requested;

(b) the number of the application or patent concerned;

(c) the change to be recorded;

(d) the name and address of the applicant or the owner prior to the change.

(2) A fee in accordance with the Schedule shall be payable for requests under subregulation (1).

(3) A single request shall be sufficient even where the change relates to both the name and address of the applicant or the owner and even where the change 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 the numbers of all applications and patents concerned are indicated in the request: Provided that where that single request is filed on paper or as otherwise permitted by the Office under regulation 29, a separate copy thereof shall be filed for each application and patent to which it relates.

(4) Where one or more of the requirements under subregulations (1) to (3) are not complied with, the Office shall invite the applicant or owner to comply with any such requirement and to make observations, within two months from the date of the invitation.

(5) Where one or more of the requirements under subregulations (1) to (3) are not complied with within two months from the date of the invitation or, where indications allowing the Office to contact the person who made the request referred to in subregulation (1) have not been filed, within three months from the date on which that request was received by the Office, the request shall be refused.

(6) Subregulations (1) to (5) shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any change in the name or address of the agent, and to any change relating to the address for correspondence or address for legal service.