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-1 c- (:2) A,i Industrial design shall be new if it has not been disclosed to the public, anywhere in the world, by publication in tangible form or USl: ur in any other way, prior' to the tiling date 01, where applicable, the prioritv date of the application for registration Section 9(2)(c) shall apply mutatis mutandis (J) ludusuial designs thai arc contrnry to public order or moralitv shall not be registrable Right to Rcgulauon of Industrial Design: Naullug of Creator 34 SeCIIUI) 10 shall apply mutatis mutandis Application 35( I) The application for registration of an industrial design shall be filed with the Registrar and shall contain a request, drawings, photographs 01 other adequate graphic representations ofthe article embodYlllg the industrial design and an indication of the kind of products for which the industrial design is to be used lr rnay be accompanied by a specimen ofthe article embodying the industria: design, where the industrial design is two-dimensional The application shall be subject to the payment of the prescribed application fee (2)Where the applicant is not the creator, the request shall be accompanied by a statement justifying the applicant's right to the registration of the industrial design (3) Section I J shall apply mutatis mutandis . (4) 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 (5) The application, at the time offiling, may contain a request that the publication ofthe industrial design, upon registration, be deferred for a period not exceeding 1:2 months from the date of filing or, if priority is claimed, from the date of priority, of the application (6) The applicant may withdraw the application at any time during its pendency Exanunauon Registration and Publication ofIndustrinl Design J6( I) The Registrar shall accord as the filing date the date of receipt of the application, provided that, at the time of receipt, the application contains indication allowing the identity of the applicant to be established and the required graphic representation of the article embodying the industrial design. Section IS( I )(b) shall apply mutatis mutandis. (2) After according a filing date, the Registrar shall examine whether the application complies with the requirements of Section :;5( I) an(I(2) and the Regulations pertaining thereto, whether the application Ice has bCCI] paid and whether the industrial design complies with the requirements of Sections 32 and 33(3) a.id the Regulations pertaining thereto (3) Where the Registrar finds that the conditions referred to in subsection (2) hereof are fulfilled, he shall register the industrial design, publish a reference to the registration and issue to the applicant a certificate of registration of the industrial design; otherwise, he shall refuse the application

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