LAWS OF MALAWI
Registered Designs
Registered Designs Regulations
Registered Designs
Cap. 49:05
[Subsidiary]
REGISTERED DESIGNS REGULATIONS
Under Sections. 7 and 58
G.N.
273/1958(F)
5/1964(M)
166/1967
78/1980
47/1992
43/1997
1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Registered Designs Regulations.
2.
In these Regulations, unless inconsistent with the context -
Citation
Interpretation
“agent” means an agent duly authorized to the satisfaction of the Registrar;
“Office” means the Designs Office;
“specimen” 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.
4.
(1) An application for the registration of a design shall be singed by the applicant or his agent,
The application shall be in form No. 1 or No. 2 or, in he case of a design to be applied to a set of
Form of application
articles, in form No. 3 or No. 4, as the case may be.
(2)
Where it is desired to registered 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.
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.
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Endorsement
as to novelty