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are dependent upon the appearance of another article

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of which the article is intended by the author of the design to form an integral part;

“legal personal representative”, in relation to a deceased person, means a person to whom probate of the will of the deceased person, letters of administration of the estate of the deceased person or other like grant, has been granted whether in Malaysia or elsewhere;

“Minister” means the Minister for the time being charged with the responsibility for intellectual property;

“owner” means the person who is registered as the owner of the registered industrial design or, if there are two or more such persons, each of those persons;

“original owner” has the meaning assigned to it by section 10;

“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;

“Register” means the Register of Industrial Designs kept under this

Act;

“registered” means registered under this Act;

“registered industrial design” means an industrial design registered under this Act;

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

“representation”, in relation to an article to which an industrial design is applied, means a drawing, tracing or specimen of the article to which the industrial design is applied or a photograph of such drawing, tracing or specimen;

“set of articles” means a number of articles that are of the same general character and ordinarily on sale together, or intended to be used together, being articles to each of which there is applied an industrial design that is the same as, or which differs only in immaterial details or in features commonly used in the relevant trade from, the industrial design applied to the other articles or to any of them;

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“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.

a set of articles;

each article in a set of articles; and

both a set of articles and each article in that set, as the case requires.