Designs Act, 1993 (Act No. 195 of 1993)RegulationsDesigns Regulations, 199916. |
| (1) | An application shall include publication particulars, on Form D8, which shall include a brief statement of the features of the design, to the satisfaction of the registrar, but which shall not be used to interpret the scope of the definitive statement. The brief statement of features shall be in narrative form and generally limited to a single paragraph of not more than 150 words. The statement shall efer to the article or articles to which the design is to be applied. The publication particulars shall be published in the journal. |
| (2) | Save as provided for in subregulation (3), the publication particulars shall be accompanied by a single representation of the design in a form suitable for publication in the journal. Features mentioned in the brief statement of features and illustrated and identified by reference symbols in the accompanying representation may be identified by the relevant reference symbols in the statement of features. |
| (3) | In the case of an application for the registration of a design for an integrated circuit topography, a mask work or a series of mask works, the publication particulars need not be accompanied by a representation of the design for publication in the journal where the representations as lodged in terms of regulations 12 and 18, by reason of size or for other reasons, are not suitable to form the basis of a representation for publication in the journal. |