Industrial Property Regulations, 2002
the application and shall be the terms, signs and
symbols generally accepted in the relevant field.
(20) If anything is expressed in units other than
metric units the equivalent in metric units shall
also be given.
Provisional
specification.
18. (1) In this Regulation, “specification” means the
description, claims, drawings and abstract.
(2) An application may be filed with a provisional
specification.
(3) The following apply if an application is filed
with a provisional specification —
(a)
unless the applicant files a final
specification within one year after the
application is filed, the application shall be
deemed to have been withdrawn;
(b)
the Managing Director shall take no steps
with respect to the application until the
final specification is filed, except under
section 41(1) to (3) of the Act;
(c)
the final specification shall be filed using
Form IP 3;
(d)
the final specification shall not go beyond
the disclosure in the provisional
specification; and
(e)
the filing of the final specification shall
not affect the filing date accorded under
section 41 of the Act.
Unity of invention.
19. (1) For the purposes of section 35 of the Act, a group
of inventions forms a single general inventive concept if
there exists between or among those inventions a
technical relationship that involves one or more of the
same or corresponding special technical features.
(2) In paragraph (1), “special technical features”
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