LAWS OF MALAWI
Patents
(Subsidiary)
16.
Cap. 49:02
Patents Regulations
(1) No descriptive matter shall appear on constructional drawings, but
drawings in the nature of flow sheets may bear descriptive matter to show the
materials used and the chemical or other reactions or treatments effected in
carrying out the invention.
(2)
Drawings showing a number of instruments or units of apparatus and
their interconnections, either mechanical or electrical, where each
such instrument or unit is shown only symbolically, may bear such
descriptive matter as is necessary to identify the instruments or their
interconnections.
(3)
Such descriptive matter shall be in black or very dark markings on
both the original and the true copy drawings and on the latter the
letters shall be not less than ¼ inch in height.
(4)
No drawing or sketch, other than a graphic chemical formula or a
mathematical formula, symbol or equation, shall appear in the verbal
part of the specification and if such a formula, symbol or equation is
used therein a copy thereof, prepared in the same manner as original
drawings, except that it may be a hand-made drawing on tracingcloth, shall be furnished if the Registrar so directs.
Descriptive matter.
17.
Drawings shall be delivered at the Office free from folds, breaks or creases
which would render them unsuitable for reproduction by photography.
Drawings not to be
creased.
18.
If an applicant desires to adopt the drawings lodged with his provisional
specification as the drawings or part of the drawings for his complete
specification, he shall refer to them in the complete specification as those
lodged with the provisional specification.
Drawings lodged
with
provisional
specification.
PART III
EXAMINATION OF APPLICATIONS AND ACCEPTANCE OF COLPETE
SPECIFICATIONS
19.
(1) When the Registrar, in making the investigation under section 16 of the
Act, finds that the application or specification does not comply with the
requirements of subsection (1) of that section, the Registrar may refuse to
accept the application or require the application or the specification which
accompanied it to be amended in such manner as may be necessary.
(2)
The Registrar may appoint a hearing if he considers it desirable to do
so, having regard to the time remaining for putting the application in
order or other circumstances of the case.
(3)
When a hearing is appointed the applicant shall be given fourteen
days’ notice of the appointment or such shorter notice as appears to
the Registrar to be reasonable in the circumstances and shall as soon
as possible notify the Registrar whether he will attend the hearing.
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Examination
procedure under
section 16.