Industrial Property Regulations, 2002
the register of industrial designs shall make a
request in Form IP 11 for a certified copy or in
Form IP 12 for an uncertified copy.
Copyrighted
designs not
registerable.
No. 12 of 2001.
46. An industrial design is not registerable if it is
protected under the Copyright Act.
Application.
47. (1) This Regulation applies with respect to an
application to register an industrial design under section
87 of the Act.
(2) The application under section 87(1)(a) of the
Act shall be in Form IP 27.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), there shall be a
separate application for each article embodying
the industrial design.
(4) There may be a single application for a set of
articles embodying the industrial design if the
articles in the set are intended to be used together.
(5) The application shall be accompanied by —
(a)
an additional copy of the representations
required under section 87(1)(c) of the Act;
and
(b)
a second specimen in addition to the
specimen required under section 87(2) of
the Act.
(6) The application, representations and all
documents provided with them shall be on paper
of a size known as A4 paper (29.7 centimetres by
21 centimetres) with a weight of at least 80 grams
per square metre and each page shall have a left
hand margin of approximately 2.5 centimetres.
(7) The following apply with respect to the
representations required under section 87(1)(c) of
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