“date of application” means—
(a)
in relation to an application made in terms of section 44, the
date on which the application in respect of the relevant design
was lodged in the convention country concerned; and
(b)
in relation to any other application, the date on which the
application was lodged at the designs office;
“design” means an aesthetic design or a functional design;
“designs office” means the designs office referred to in section 4;
“functional design” means any design applied to any article,
whether for the pattern or the shape or the configuration thereof, or for
any two or more of those purposes, and by whatever means it is
applied, having features which are necessitated by the function which
the article to which the design is applied, is to perform, and includes
an integrated circuit topography, a mask work and a series of mask
works;
“integrated circuit” means an article, in final or intermediate form,
containing electrical, electromagnetic or optical elements and circuitry,
which is capable of performing an electrical or an optical function, and
in which at least a part of the electrical, electromagnetic or optical
elements and circuitry are integrally formed, in accordance with a
predetermined topography, in a semiconductor material;
“integrated circuit topography” means a functional design which
consists of the pattern, shape or configuration of the threedimensional disposition of the electrical, electromagnetic or optical
elements and circuitry of an integrated circuit;
“journal” means the patent journal published in terms of section 14 of
the Patents Act, 1978 (Act No. 57 of 1978);
“mask work” means a functional design which consists of a pattern
of an image however fixed or encoded, having or representing at least
a part of an integrated circuit;
“Minister” means the Minister of Trade and Industry;
“personal representative” . . . . . .
[Definition of “personal representative” deleted by s. 69 of Act No. 38 of
1997.]
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulation;
“proprietor”, in relation to a design, means—
(a)
the author of the design; or
(b)
where the author of the design executes the work for another
person, the other person for whom the work is so executed; or