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established or deemed to be established under the Act, the Trade Marks Act,
1993 (Act 194 of 1993), the Designs Act, 1993 (Act 195 of 1993), the Registration
of Copyright in Cinematograph Films Act, 1977 (Act 62 of 1977), the Close
Corporations Act, 1984 (Act 69 of 1984), and the Companies Act, 1973 (Act 61 of
1973);
“CIPRO customer” means any person using electronic services and includes
any person who has been allowed by the Registrar to use electronic services,
who is legally entitled to act on behalf of a natural or juristic person, and who has
thus been allowed to use or provide electronic services or to act as an
intermediary in respect of electronic services;
“CIPRO portal” means the Internet website or other electronic portal forming
part of the CIPRO system;
“CIPRO record retention system” means the system used by CIPRO to store
records for subsequent access, whether in paper, microfilm, electronic or any
other form;
“CIPRO system” means the computer system, including the CIPRO portal,
through which CIPRO provides electronic services, irrespective of the medium or
form of technology underlying or forming part of such services;
“electronic services” means the services provided or made available by CIPRO
through the CIPRO system in terms of regulation 1A;
“inspect” includes obtaining access to a record via the CIPRO system;
“lodge” includes the creation of a record on the CIPRO system;
“office” means the patent office established under section 5 (1) of the Act;
“operational requirements” means the requirements provided for in regulation
1A(2); and
“priority document” means a copy of the application and all relevant documents
lodged with such application in a convention country certified by the authority with
whom the application in the convention country was filed.
(2) These regulations shall apply to all patents and patent applications subject to the
modifications set out in Chapter 1 A in respect of international applications
designating the Republic.
1A. ELECTRONIC SERVICES
(1) The Registrar may direct by notice in the Gazette that any requirement under the
Act or these regulations, including requirements in respect of information, records
and payment, may or must be satisfied in electronic form, subject to the
provisions of the operational requirements.
(2) The Registrar must publish operational requirements on the CIPRO portal setting
out the requirements, processes and procedures in respect of all or certain
electronic services, including
(a) registration procedures;
(b) identification, authentication and verification;
(c) form and format of records;