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“Common Regulations” means, in respect of industrial designs, the
Common Regulations adopted under the Hague Agreement and,
in respect of marks, the Common Regulations under the Madrid
Protocol;
“convention country” means a country which is a party to the Paris
Convention;
“Court” means the High Court of Botswana;
“geographical indication” means an indication or sign which identifies
goods as originating in the territory of a country or a region or
locality in a country where a quality, reputation or other
characteristic of the goods is essentially attributable to that
geographical origin;
“HARARE Protocol” means the Protocol on Patents and Industrial
Designs Within the Framework of the African Regional
Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO) adopted at Harare,
Zimbabwe, on December 10, 1982 as last revised or amended;
“industrial design” means any composition of lines or colours or any
three dimensional form, whether or not associated with lines or
colours, which gives a special appearance to a product of
industry or handicraft;
“integrated circuit” means a circuit, in its final or intermediate form,
in which the elements, at least one of which is an active element,
and some or all of the interconnections are integrally formed in
or on a piece of material and that is intended to perform an
electronic function;
“International Bureau” means the International Bureau of the World
Intellectual Property Organization (in this Act referred to as
“WIPO”);
“International Classification”, in respect of marks, means the
classification according to the Nice Agreement concerning the
International Classification of Goods and Services for the
Purposes of the Registration of Marks, of June 15, 1957, as last
revised or amended, and, in respect of industrial designs, means
the classification according to the Locarno Agreement
concerning the International Classification for Industrial
Designs, of October 8, 1968, as last revised or amended;
“International Patent Classification” means the classification
according to the Strasbourg Agreement of March 24, 1971 as
last revised or amended;
“International Register” means the official collection of data
concerning international registrations, as maintained by the
International Bureau;
“invention” means an idea of an inventor which permits in practice
the solution to a specific problem in the field of technology;
“Journal” means the journal of marks, patents and designs referred to
in section 5 (e);