NZ.09 AMENDMENT OF THE APPLICATION; TIME LIMITS
PCT Art. 28, PCT Art. 41, NZPA Sec. 33(5), NZPA Sec. 40, NZPA Sec. 201, NZPA Sec. 202, NZPR Reg. 58, NZPR Reg. 136, NZPR Reg.137, NZPR Reg. 138, NZPR Reg. 139, NZPR Reg. 140
The applicant may make the following modifications to his application before the Office:
(i) prior to acceptance:
— corrections of clerical errors or omissions in the patents register, patents, patent applications, or any documents filed in connection with a patent application or proceedings before the Commissioner in connection with a patent or patent application. This does not apply to errors or omissions in a patent specification;
— amendments that do not result in the broadening of the description and/or claims by the incorporation of new matter (beyond the disclosure of the international application as filed) otherwise the Commissioner may direct post-dating of the application and specification;
(ii) after acceptance:
— corrections of clerical errors or omissions per (i) above;
NZPA Sec 83, NZPA Sec 84, NZPA Sec 85, NZPA Sec 86, NZPA Sec 87, NZPA Sec 88,, NZPR Reg 87, NZPR Reg 88, NZPR Reg 89
— no amendment is allowed, except for the purpose of correcting an obvious mistake, the effect of which would be that the application as amended would claim or describe matter not disclosed in substance in the application before amendment, or that any amended claim would not fall wholly within the scope of a claim of the application before amendment.