REGISTERED MAIL
May 24, 1979
Smart & Biggar
Box 2999, Station D,
Ottawa, Ont.
K1P 5Y6
Gentlemen:
Application No: 211920
Applicant: Polaroid Corporation
Title: Opaque Backcoat
In your letter of May 14, 1979, you have refused to supply particulars
about the interference proceedings related to the corresponding
United States application. Such information had been requested by the
Examiner on February 13, 1979 under authority of Rule 39(1)(c) of
the Patent Regulations.
You have stated there is in fact an interference involving the patent
to which the United States application issued. It is thus apparent that
there is available to the applicant information about an interference
involving that patent, and consequently related to the corresponding
United States application.
You are therefore in contravention of Rule 39(4), and I now refuse this
application unless the information is submitted within two months.
Yours respectfully,
J.H.A. Gariepy
Commissioner of Patents