Industrial Property Regulations, 2002
numbers centred at the top of the sheets but not in
the top margin —
(a)
the request;
(b)
the description, claims and abstract; and
(c)
the drawings.
(13) Every fifth line of the description and the
claims shall be numbered with the number
appearing to the left of the line but not in the
margin.
(14) All parts of the application, other than the
drawings and the request, shall be typed or printed
rather than hand-written and the following apply
to the appearance of the text —
(a)
the text shall be dark and indelible;
(b)
the line spacing of the text shall be at least
one and one half; and
(c)
the capital letters shall be at least .20
centimetres high.
(15) All parts of the application must be prepared
so that they are legible when they are photocopied
or otherwise reproduced.
(16) Notwithstanding paragraph (14), graphic
symbols and characters, and chemical and
mathematical formulae may be hand-written but
must be dark and indelible.
(17) The request may be hand-written, typed or
printed but the text must be dark and indelible.
(18) All parts of the application shall be
reasonably free of over-writings, insertions
between lines, deletions or other alterations.
(19) All terms, signs and symbols used in the
application shall be used consistently throughout
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