LAWS OF MALAWI 

Patents
(Subsidiary) 	

Cap. 49:02 

Patents Regulations

9.	

A request in terms of section 13(2) of the Act for an extension of time for
lodging a complete specification shall be made in form No. 7.

10.	

A request in terms of section 17(1) of the Act for the post-dating of an
application shall be made in form No. 8.

Extension
of
period for lodging
complete
specification.
Request for posdating
an
application

PART II 

DRAWINGS


11.	

Drawings, when supplied, shall accompany the provisional or complete
specification to which they refer, except in the case provided for by regulation
18. A true copy of the original drawings shall be lodged at the same time as
the original drawings.

12.	

(1) Drawings shall be made on pure white tough drawing paper, not thinner
than 100 sheets to the inch, of smooth surface and good quality, and without
colour or washes, in such a way as to admit of being clearly reproduced on a
reduced scale by photograph.
(2.)	

13.	

14.	

When
supplied,
drawings
to
accompany
specification.

Drawing paper.

Mounted drawings may not be used.

(1) Drawings shall be on sheets which measure 13 inches from top to bottom
and are either 8 inches or 16 inches wide, and shall be made on one side of the
paper only and have 1½ inches clear binding margin on the left hand side of
the sheet and a ½ inch clear margin on the top, bottom and right hand side of
the sheet.
(2.)	

If there are more figures than can be shown on one of the smaller
sized sheets, two or more of these sheets shall be used unless the large
size is required by the size of any one figure.

(3.)	

An exceptionally large figure may be continued on subsequent sheets.

(4.)	

No more sheets shall be employed than are necessary.

(5.)	

The figures shall be numbered consecutively without regard to the
number of sheets, and shall as far as possible be arranged in numerical
order, separated by a sufficient space to keep them distinct.

(6.)	

Where figures on a number of sheets form in effect a single complete
figure, they shall be so arranged that the complete figure can be
assembled without concealing any part of another figure.

Drawings shall be prepared in accordance with the following requirements:(a)	

They shall be executed in durable black or very dark
markings;

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Size of sheets, etc.

Preparation
drawings

of

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