Industrial Design
[No. 22 of 2016
“court” in relation to any matter means the High Court;
“creator” means a person who actually creates the design
and includes a person who made arrangements for the
creation of a computer aided design, but does not include a
person to whom a design has been communicated, from
within or outside Zambia;
“date of lodging” means the date on which a document is
lodged or deemed by virtue of any provision in this Act to
have been lodged;
“design” means an industrial design taking the form of features
of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament or composition
of lines or colours applied to any article, whether in two
dimensional or in three dimensional or in both forms, by
any industrial process or means, which in the finished article
appeal to, and are judged solely by the eye, and are not
related to functionality; but does not include any mode or
principle of construction or anything which is in substance
a mere mechanical device;
“designated office”means the national designs office
designated by an applicant for a conventional registration
of a design;
“elected office” means the national designs office elected by
an applicant for the registration of a conventional
application;
“exclusive licence” means a licence, in writing, signed by or
on behalf of a proprietor, authorising the licensee, to the
exclusion of all other persons, including the person granting
the licence, to exercise a right that would otherwise be
exercisable exclusively by the proprietor, and “exclusive
licensee”, “exclusive assignee” and “exclusive assignment”
shall be construed accordingly, with the necessary
modifications;
“filing date” means the date of receipt of an application which
complies with the requirements of this Act;
“Harare Protocol” means the Protocol for the Protection of
Patents, Utility Models and Industrial Designs administered
by ARIPO;
“legal representative” means a—
(a) liquidator or receiver of a company;
(b) person appointed under a power of attorney;
(c) person recognised by law, representing a person
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