Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright and Designs (Fees) Rules, 1997
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Rules may be cited as the Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright and Designs (Fees) Rules, 1997.
(2) These Rules shall come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1997.
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paragraphs: (1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires -
"the Act of 1927" means the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927 (No. 16 of 1927);
"the Act of 1992" means the Patents Act, 1992 (No. 1 of 1992);
" the Act of 1996" means the Trade Marks Act, 1996 (No. 6 of 1996);
"article" means any article of manufacture and any substance artificial or natural or partly artificial and partly natural;
"certification mark" has the meaning assigned to it by section 55 of the act of 1996; "collective mark" has the meaning assigned to it by section 54 of the act of 1996;
"copyright", when used in relation to a design registered under Part III of the Act of 1927, means the exclusive right to apply the design to any article in any class in which the design is registered;
"Court" means the High Court;
"design" means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to any article by any industrial process or means, whether manual, mechanical or chemical, separate or combined, which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye, but does not include any mode or principle of construction, or anything which is in substance a mere mechanical device;
"designating" means -
(i) in relation to an application for a patent, designating (in pursuance of the European Patent Convention or the Treaty, as the case may be) the state or states in which protection is sought for an invention,
(ii) in relation to a patent, designating (in pursuance of the European Patent Convention) the state or states in which the patent has effect;
"European patent" means a patent granted under the European Patent Convention;
"European Patent Bulletin"' means the bulletin of that name published under the European Patent Convention;
"European Patent Convention" means the Convention on the Grant of European Patents signed at Munich on the 5th day of October, 1973;
"international application for a patent" means an application made under the Treaty; "patent" means an exclusive right conferred pursuant to Part II or Part III of the Act of 1992;
"patent agent" has the meaning assigned to it by section 105 of the Act of 1992;
"patent application" means an application under Part II or Part III of the Act of 1992 for a patent;
"proprietor", in relation to a patent, means the person to whom the patent was granted or the person whose title is subsequently registered under section 85 of the Act of 1992;
"published" -
( a ) in relation to any document which is required to be published under the Act of 1992, means made available to the public and includes the making available for inspection of the document as of right, at the Office and such other place (if any) as may be for the time being specified for the purpose by the Minister, by the public, whether on payment of a fee or not, and
( b ) in relation to any other document, matter, record or information which the Controller is authorised to publish, means made available to the public and includes the making available of the document, matter, record or information in any form at the Office and such other place (if any) as may be for the time being specified for the purpose by the Minister, whether on payment of a fee or not;
"right", in relation to any patent or application, includes an interest in the patent or application and, without prejudice to the foregoing, any reference in these Rules to a right in a patent includes a reference to a share in the patent;