REGISTERED DESIGNS: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

REGISTERED DESIGNS: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

APPOINTMENT NOTICE

under s. 4

G.N. 235/1965

    The Minister has appointed—

    (a)    the Registrar General to be Registrar of Designs;

    (b)    the Assistant Registrar General to be Deputy Registrar of Designs.

REGISTERED DESIGNS REGULATIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

    REGULATION

Preliminary

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

PART I
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF DESIGNS

    3.    Form of application

    4.    Endorsement as to novelty

    5.    Application for registration under section 10

    6.    Representations or specimens to be furnished with application

    7.    Preparation of representations

    8.    In certain cases representations to be furnished in place of specimens

    9.    Portraits of President, armorial bearings, etc.

    10.    Designs excluded from registration under section 7 (3)

    11.    Convention applications

PART II
PROCEDURE ON RECEIPT OF APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF A DESIGN AND EXTENSION OF PERIOD OF COPYRIGHT

    12.    Registrar’s objections

    13.    Decision of Registrar

    14.    Procedure on appeal from decision of Registrar

    15.    Certificate of registration

    16.    Non-completion

    17.    Death of applicant

    18.    Extension of period of copyright

PART III
ASSIGNMENTS AND COMPULSORY LICENCES

    19.    Application for registration of title under section 22

    20.    Copies of documents

    21.    Particulars to be stated in application

    22.    Application for compulsory licence

    23.    Opposition

    24.    Hearing

PART IV
REGISTER OF DESIGNS

    25.    Alteration of entries in register

    26.    Correction of errors

    27.    Cancellation of registration

    28.    Costs

    29.    Searches

    30.    Certified copies of entries, etc.

    31.    Copy of certificate of registration

    32.    Designs not open to public inspection

PART V
MISCELLANEOUS

    33.    Fees

    34.    Forms

    35.    Size, etc., of documents

    36.    Address for service

    37.    Method and proof of service

    38.    Lodging of documents

    39.    Power of Registrar to fix time and place of proceedings

    40.    Agency

    41.    Signature of documents

    42.    Amendment of documents

    43.    Power of Registrar to waive requirements

    44.    Extension of time

    45.    Excluded days

    46.    Days and hours of business

    47.    Copy of application to Tribunal to be served on Registrar

    48.    Order of Court or Tribunal

    49.    Publication of order of Court or Tribunal

        First Schedule

        Fees payable to the Office

        Second Schedule

        Forms

G.N. 273/1958(F)
5/1964(M)
166/1967
78/1980
47/1992
43/1997
35/2000
5/2006

REGISTERED DESIGNS REGULATIONS

under ss. 7 and 58

Preliminary

1.    Citation

    These Regulations may be cited as the Registered Designs Regulations.

2.    Interpretation

    In these Regulations, unless inconsistent with the context—

    “agent” means an agent duly authorized to the satisfaction of the Registrar;

    “Office” means the Designs Office;

    “specimen” means an article with the design applied to it;

    “textile article” means textile piece goods, handkerchiefs and shawls, and includes such other classes of articles of a similar character as the Registrar may from time to time decide.

PART I
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF DESIGNS

3.    Establishment of Designs Office

    (1) An application for the registration of a design shall be signed by the applicant or his agent. The application shall be in form No. 1 or No. 2 or, in the case of a design to be applied to a set of articles, in form No. 3 or No. 4, as the case may be.

    (2) Where it is desired to register the same design in respect of more than one article, a separate application shall be made in respect of each article. In that case each application shall be numbered separately and shall be treated as a separate and distinct application.

    (3) Every application shall state the article to which the design is to be applied and that the applicant claims to be the proprietor thereof.

    (4) Except in the case of an application to register a design to be applied to a textile article, to wallpaper or to lace, the application shall further be accompanied by a statement of the features of the design for which novelty is claimed.

    (5) For the purposes of section 59 (2) an application shall be made in form No. 1 or No. 3, as the case may be, subject to such modifications as the Registrar may approve.

4.    Endorsement as to novelty

    The applicant shall, if required by the Registrar in any case so to do, endorse on each of the representations or specimens a statement satisfactory to the Registrar of the novelty claimed for the design.

5.    Application for registration under section 10

    If the application is for the registration of a design which has already been registered in respect of one or more articles, or consists of a registered design with modifications or variations not sufficient to alter the character or substantially to affect the identity thereof, and…