APPLICATION FOR PATENTS
AND SPECIFICATIONS
3. (1) An application, other than a convention application, shall be
made in Form No. 1.
Appropriate
application
forms to be
used
(2) A convention application shall be made in Form No. 2.
(3) An application for a patent of addition shall be made in Form No. 3.
(4) An application in terms of subsection (2) of section thirty-one for
the grant of a patent of addition instead of an independent patent shall be
made in Form No. 4.
(5) Every application (other than a convention application) shall be
accompanied by either a provisional specification in duplicate in Form
No. 5 or a complete specification shall be accompanied in Form No. 6;
and every convention application shall be accompanied by a complete
specification in duplicate in Form No. 6.
4. An application for a patent by an assignee or the legal representative
of a person who was the owner of an invention when he died shall be
accompanied by the deed of assignment or the probate of the will of the
deceased or the letters of administration, as the case may be, or a
certified copy thereof, and such further evidence and proof of the
applicant's title as the Registrar may require.
Assignee or
legal
representative
to establish
right to act
Cognate
5. Where, in pursuance of subsection (3) of section thirteen, the
Registrar allows a single complete specification to be proceeded with in application
respect of two or more applications in respect of which two or more
complete specifications have been lodged, the single complete
specification may include any matter disclosed in any of the said
specifications and shall be deemed to have been lodged on such date, not
earlier than the earliest date on which all the matter disclosed in the said
single complete specification has been disclosed to the Office in or in