Industrial Designs Order, 1999 · As enacted · Part II · Registration of Industrial Designs
Section 22
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Attorney General may, with the approval of His
Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, make regulations to provide for extension of time for any period of time specified for the doing of any act in relation to an application for registration or in proceedings under this Order or any rules or regulations made thereunder, not being proceedings in court.
application for registration
"application for registration" means an application for registration of an industrial design made under section 15; 61 29th. JANUARY, 2000 11article 11 means any article of manufacture and includes any part of an article if that part is made and sold separately;
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The regulations may contain such provision as the Attorney
General thinks fit regulating the circumstances in which such an extension may be granted and may also provide·· for the protection and compensation of persons affected by the grant of extension of time and may authorise the Registrar to grant an extension of time notwithstanding that the period has already expired.
An application for registration of an industrial design shall not be amended under subsection 11) if, as a result of the amendment, the scope of the application would be increased by the inclusion of any matter that was not in substance disclosed in the application initially filed or if, as a result of the amendment, the initial design was or, if there is more than one, any of the initial designs were altered.
industrial design
"industrial design" means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process, being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged by the eye, but does not include - fa} a method or principle of construction; or [i) are dictated solely by the function which the article has to perform; or
Where a request for amendment of an application for registration of an industrial design has been granted under subsection 11), and the amendment has the effect of excluding one or more industrial designs from the application initially filed, the applicant may at any time while the initial application is pending make a further application for registration of the industrial design or industrial designs so excluded.
Where, after an application for registration has been filed and before the industrial design is registered, a further application is filed by the original applicant or his successor in title in accordance with the regulations in respect of any part of the matter contained in the earlier application and the conditions mentioned in section 15 are satisfied in relation to the new application (without the new application contravening the provisions of subsection (2)), the new 73 2000
Extensions of time.
Amendment of applications.
Rights in applications.
Examination of applications.
Registration and publication.
application shall be treated as having, as its date of filing, the date of filing the earlier application.
Terms defined in s 2
application for registration
Defined · s 2"application for registration" means an application for registration of an industrial design made under section 15; 61 29th. JANUARY, 2000 11article 11 means any article of manufacture and includes any part of an article if that part is made and sold separately;
industrial design
Defined · s 2"industrial design" means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process, being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged by the eye, but does not include - fa} a method or principle of construction; or [i) are dictated solely by the function which the article has to perform; or
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