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26 No. 10 Effect of patent granted by ARIPO. 49. A patent in respect of which Sierra Leone is designated or elected state granted by ARIPO by virtue of the ARIPO Protocol shall have the same effect in Sierra Leone as a patent granted under this Act unless the Registrar communicates to ARIPO, in respect of the application, a decision made in accordance with the provisions of the Protocol that if a patent is granted by ARIPO that patent shall have no effect in Sierra Leone. Patents and Industrial Designs Act 2012 No. 10 50. (1) (b) � drawings; (c) � photographs or other adequate graphic representations of the article embodying the industrial design; (d) � an indication of the kinds of products for which the industrial design is to be used; and Section 7 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this Part (2) Any creator of an industrial design or his successors in title shall have the exclusive right to exploit the design, to sell or cause to be sold for commercial or industrial purposes the goods in which the design is incorporated, subject to the conditions of this Act and without prejudice to the rights conferred by any other enactment. (3) The following shall not be registered as industrial 2012 (a) � request; PART VII - INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS Regulating of designs. Patents and Industrial Designs Act (e) � a specimen of the article embodying the industrial design, where the industrial design is two-dimensional. (2) The application shall be subject to the payment of the prescribed application fee. (3) Where the applicant is not the creator, the request shall be accompanied by a statement justifying the applicant's right to registration of the industrial design. designs:– (4) Section 15 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this (a) � designs which serve solely to obtain a technical result and to the extent that it leaves no freedom as regards arbitrary features of appearance; section. (b) � designs that consists solely in a change in the colour of designs already known; (6) The application, at the time of filing, may contain a request that the publication of the industrial design, upon registration, be deferred for a period not exceeding twelve months from the date of filing or, if priority is claimed, from the date of priority, of the application. (c) � works of sculpture, architecture, painting, engraving, animating, embroidery and photography and any other inventions of purely artistic nature; or (e) � designs contrary to public order or morality. Application for registration of industrial designs. 51. (1) The application for registration of an industrial design shall be filed with the Registrar and shall contain- (5) 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. (7) The applicant may withdraw the application at any time during its pendency. 52. (1) The Registrar shall accord as the filing date the date of Filing date. receipt of the application if at the time of receipt, the application contained indications allowing the identity of the applicant to be established and the required graphic representation of the article embodying the industrial design. 27

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