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Designs Act, 1993 (Act No. 195 of 1993)

Regulations

Designs Regulations, 1999

8. The register and indexes

 

 

(1) On receipt of an application for a design registration, the registrar shall allocate to the application an official application number which shall include the symbol 'A' or 'F', as the case may be, as part thereof in terms of subregulation (7).

 

(2) The registrar shall cause to be entered in the register the particulars called for in Form D2, which particulars shall include the official application number, the name, address and address for service of the applicant and the date of application, the part of the register in which the application is filed, the class in which the application is filed, the articles to which the design is to be applied, and particulars of a convention application (if any).

 

(3) When the design is registered there shall be entered in the register the date of registration, the date of publication of the application in the journal, subsequent notifications of assignments, licences, hypothecs, amendments, and such other matters as may be determined by the registrar.

 

(4) The registrar shall maintain a record containing a representation or representations or a specimen or specimens of the design which has been registered, in such form as the registrar may deem necessary.

 

(5) The registrar shall maintain an alphabetical index of the names of all applicants for and all proprietors of design registrations on the register, and an alphabetical index of the names of all assignees of design applications and design registrations, and the registrar may also maintain an alphabetical index of the names of all registered licensees, all hypothec holders and all persons who caused an attachment to be entered.

 

(6) The registrar shall maintain an index of all registered designs according to their classification, based on the publication particulars as published in the journal in accordance with regulation 31.

 

(7) The registrar shall cause the entries in respect of registrations in Part A of the register and those in respect of registrations in Part F of the register to be clearly identified as such.