FINAL
PROVISIONS
Section
1.
Implementation. In the interest of the service, until the
organization
of the Bureau is completed, the functions necessary to implement these
Regulations shall be performed by the personnel of the former Bureau of
Patents, Trademarks, and Technology Transfer as may be designated by
the
Director General upon the recommendation of the Chief of the Technology
Transfer Registry of the Bureau of Patents Trademarks and Technology
Transfer
heretofore designated as Officer-in-Charge or Caretaker of the
Documentation
Information and Technology Transfer Bureau.
Section 2. Fees
and charges to be prepaid; fees and charges payable in advance.
Express charges, freight, postage, telephone, telefacsimile including
cost
of paper and other related expenses, and all other charges on any
matter
sent to the Office must be prepaid in full. Otherwise, the Office shall
not receive nor perform any action on such matters.The filing fees and
all other fees and charges payable to the Office shall be collected in
advance of any service to be rendered.
Section
3.
Repeal. All rules and regulations, memoranda,
circulars and
memorandum circulars and parts thereof inconsistent with these
Regulations
particularly the Rules of Practice of the Technology Transfer Registry
of the Bureau of Patents, Trademarks and Technology Transfer [BPTTT],
as
amended, are hereby repealed.
Section
4.
Separability. If any provision in these Regulations or
application
of such provision to any circumstance is held invalid, the
remainder
of these Regulations shall not be affected thereby.
Section
5.
Effectivity. These rules and regulations shall take
effect fifteen
(15) days after publication in a newspaper of general circulation.
Done
this
day
of
1998.
EMMA C.
FRANCISCO
Director General
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