92. Privilege for communications with patent agents

between a person and a registered patent agent, a partnership entitled under Part 19 to describe itself as a firm of patent agents or a body corporate entitled under Part 19 to describe itself as a patent agent; or

for the purpose of obtaining, or in response to a request for, information which a person is seeking for the purpose of instructing his patent agent, is privileged from disclosure in legal proceedings in Brunei Darussalam in the same way as a communication between a person and his solicitor or, as the case may be, a communication for the purpose of obtaining, or in response to a request for, information which a person seeks for the purpose of instructing his solicitor.