14. Application for registration

Terms defined in s 3

• article

  article

  Defined · s 3

  “article” means any article of manufacture or handicraft, and includes any part of such article or handicraft if that part is made and sold separately but does not include an integrated circuit or part of an integrated circuit within the meaning of the Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 2000, or a mask used to make such an integrated circuit;

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• industrial design

  industrial design

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  “industrial design” means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process or means, being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged by the eye, but does not include— (a) a method or principle of construction; or (b) features of shape or configuration of an article which — (i) are dictated solely by the function which the article has to perform; or (ii) are dependent upon the appearance of another article Industrial Designs 9 of which the article is intended by the author of the design to form an integral part;

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• prescribed

  prescribed

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  “prescribed” means prescribed by or under this Act or any regulations made under this Act, and where no mode is mentioned, means prescribed from time to time by order published in the Gazette;

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• Registrar

  Registrar

  Defined · s 3

  “Registrar” means the Registrar of Industrial Designs as designated in subsection 4(1);

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• statement of novelty

  statement of novelty

  Defined · s 3

  “statement of novelty”, in relation to an industrial design, means a statement relating to the representation of an article to which the industrial design is applied that indicates those features of the representation in respect of which novelty is claimed.

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