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Effect of
patent granted
by ARIPO.
49. A patent in respect of which Sierra Leone is designated or
elected state granted by ARIPO by virtue of the ARIPO Protocol
shall have the same effect in Sierra Leone as a patent granted under
this Act unless the Registrar communicates to ARIPO, in respect of
the application, a decision made in accordance with the provisions of
the Protocol that if a patent is granted by ARIPO that patent shall
have no effect in Sierra Leone.
Patents and Industrial Designs Act
2012
No. 10
50.
(1)
(b) � drawings;
(c) � photographs or other adequate graphic
representations of the article embodying the
industrial design;
(d) � an indication of the kinds of products for
which the industrial design is to be used;
and
Section 7 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this Part
(2) Any creator of an industrial design or his successors
in title shall have the exclusive right to exploit the design, to sell or
cause to be sold for commercial or industrial purposes the goods in
which the design is incorporated, subject to the conditions of this
Act and without prejudice to the rights conferred by any other
enactment.
(3) The following shall not be registered as industrial
2012
(a) � request;
PART VII - INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS
Regulating of
designs.
Patents and Industrial Designs Act
(e) � a specimen of the article embodying the
industrial design, where the industrial design
is two-dimensional.
(2) The application shall be subject to the payment of the
prescribed application fee.
(3) Where the applicant is not the creator, the request
shall be accompanied by a statement justifying the applicant's right
to registration of the industrial design.
designs:–
(4) Section 15 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this
(a) � designs which serve solely to obtain a
technical result and to the extent that it leaves
no freedom as regards arbitrary features of
appearance;
section.
(b) � designs that consists solely in a change in
the colour of designs already known;
(6) The application, at the time of filing, may contain a
request that the publication of the industrial design, upon registration,
be deferred for a period not exceeding twelve months from the date of
filing or, if priority is claimed, from the date of priority, of the application.
(c) � works of sculpture, architecture, painting,
engraving, animating, embroidery and
photography and any other inventions of
purely artistic nature; or
(e) � designs contrary to public order or morality.
Application
for
registration of
industrial
designs.
51. (1) The application for registration of an industrial design
shall be filed with the Registrar and shall contain-
(5) Two or more industrial designs may be the subject of
the same application, provided they relate to the same class of the
international classification or to the same set or composition of articles.
(7) The applicant may withdraw the application at any
time during its pendency.
52. (1) The Registrar shall accord as the filing date the date of Filing date.
receipt of the application if at the time of receipt, the application
contained indications allowing the identity of the applicant to be
established and the required graphic representation of the article
embodying the industrial design.
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