- Citation
- Interpretation
- Fees
- Forms
- Correspondence
- Time Limits
- Joint Applicants and Owners
- Joint Designers
- Clerical Errors
- General
- SCHEDULE I - Fees
- SCHEDULE II-INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS ACT CAP. 309A
- FORM No. 1 APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
- FORM No.2 STATEMENT OF DESIGNER
- FORM No. 3 APFOINTMENT OF AGENT
- FORM No.4 CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATIONOF AN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
- FORM No.5 TRANSFER AND ASSIGNMENTS OF APPLICATIONFOR REGISTRATION
- FORM No.6 TRANSFER AND ASSIGNMENTS OF A REGISTEREDDESIGN
- FORM No.7 CHANGE OF NAME
- FORM No.8 RENEWAL OF REGISTRATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
- FORM No. 9 REQUEST FOR CERTICATE OF THE DlRECTOR IN RELATION TO AN ENTRY, MATTER OR THING
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INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS REGULATIONS, 1984 1984/83.
2006-2.
Authority: These Regulations were made on 17th April, 1984 by the Minister under section 49 of the Industrial Designs Act.
Commencement: 17th April, 1984.
Citation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Industrial Designs Short title. Regulations, 1984.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations, Definitions. Fees
3. The fees to be paid under the Act and these Regulations are Fees set out.
Schedule I.
those fixed in Schedule I.
4. Payments shall be made in Barbadian currency, but the Currency. equivalent amount in a foreign currency that is convertible in Barbados may be accepted.
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Excess fee. 5. When a fee paid by a person to the Director for any purpose exceeds the fee fixed by these Regulations for that purpose by more than $10, the person who paid the fee is entitled to be refunded the amount of excess less $10.
Fee refund. 6. When a fee is paid to the Director by any person by mistake for an application that is withdrawn before it is given an application number, or for a service that cannot be provided, the person who paid the fee is entitled to a refund of the fee less $25, if he claims the refund within one year of the payment of the fee.
Refund of 7. When a person pays a fee in advance for registration, he is
advance fee.
entitled to a refund of the fee, less $15, if the application is withdrawn.
Payment of 8. (1) Fees that are paid by cheque, bank draft or money order
fees.
shall be forwarded to the Director and made payable to him.
(2) Fees may be paid by cash at the Office.
Cheques. 9. A payment of a fee by cheque may be accepted by the Director as being a payment of the fee when the cheque is received by him, but if the cheque is not paid when presented to the bank on which it is drawn and not made good within such time as the Director may fix, the acceptance of the fee is revoked and any thing done pursuant to the payment is void and, if appropriate, shall be so recorded in the register.
Forms
Form 10. (1) In submitting a document to the Office for any purpose,
required.
the person submitting the document must use the form set out in
Schedule II. Schedule II that is appropriate for the purpose, but the form may be modified in such manner as is necessary in the circumstances.
(2) In submitting a document to the Office, one copy only of the document need be submitted.
Replacing 11. If a document that is submitted to the Office differs
documents.
significantly from the form in Schedule II intended to be used for the purpose of the submission, the Director may require that the
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document be replaced, within a time fixed by the Director, by one that conforms to the document required by Schedule II to be used for the purpose.
12. (1) All applications, notices, statements, papers having paper representations affixed, or other documents authorised or required =qh-by the Act or these regulations to be made, left or sent to the ments. Director must be on strong, durable white paper and, except in the case of statutory documents and affidavits, must be written on 1 side of the paper only. 13. (1) The pages of documents, other than graphic Page representations must be numbered consecutively, preferably at the ;;z-top of the page.
(2) Page margins must be not less than 2 cm. 15. The graphic representations in an application must meet ~r.+k~re-
quirements.
the following reqirements: Isuitable for reproduction;
(d) the representations are to appear on only 1 side of a sheet;
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Folds, breaks.
PhOtO-
graphs.
Rules about specimens.
communi-
cating with 0fficx.z.
Mode of wmmuni-cation.
(e) the representations are to be on a scale sufficiently large to show the features of the design clearly;
cf) figures in a representation are to be numbered consecutively without regard to the number of sheets in the representation and so far as possible the figures are to be arranged in numerical order; and
(g) figures in a representation can be continued on subsequent sheets if necessary or several figures can appear on the same page.
16. Graphic representations in an application must be free of background may be used in an application instead of graphic representations if the photographs clearly illustrate the design and can be readily reproduced.
18. (1) The Director may require that a graphic representation or a photograph be provided instead of a specimen when the size and weight of the specimen makes it difficult to process and store it; and, in any event, a specimen must not exceed 1 kilogram in weight or 30 centimetres in any dimension.
(2) Specimens that are perishable or made of dangerous material shall not be submitted to the Office.
(2) When communicating with the Office about an application or registered design, the correspondent shall identify the
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application or registration clearly, giving such information as the date of filing, kind of product, name of applicant and registration number.
21. All correspondence from the Office to an applicant shall GXIUII~~-
ding from
be sent
office. 22. When, in respect of an application, there is more than 1 MU&AC applicant, correspondence shall be conducted applicants. Industrial Designs Cap. 309A.
industrial design;
Photographs, Drawings and Specimens
material suitable for reproduction;
those used in the application;
such folds, breaks or creases as render them unsuitable for reproduction. 17. Photographs of an article taken against a neutral Correspondence
Barbados has been appointed;
for service of the applicant in Barbados; or
Barbados to represent the applicant and the applicant has
no address for service filed in the Office.
in Barbados has been named to represent all the applicants;