(1) This section applies if a patent has ceased to have effect by reason of a failure to pay any renewal fee within the prescribed period or within that period as extended under section 20.
(2) The Commissioner may, on a request made in the prescribed manner and in accordance with this subpart, by order restore the patent, and any patent of addition specified in the request that has ceased to have effect when the patent ceased to have effect, if the Commissioner is satisfied that the failure to pay the renewal fee was unintentional.
Compare: 1953 No 64 s 35(1)