c. At his residence or place of business or employment, to some responsible person
there residing or employed.
Registered Designs
Registered Designs
Cap. 49:05
Registered Designs Regulations
[Subsidiary]
38.
Any notice, application or other document sent to the Office by post shall not be deemed to have
Lodging of documents
been given, made or lodged until it is actually received in the Office.
39.
The Registrar may in any proceedings held before him decide the hours, times and places at
which he will sit and he may adjourn any proceedings for such time and to such place as he may
think fit.
Power of Registrar
to fix time and place of
proceedings
40.
41.
Any application, request or notice which is required or permitted by the Act or these Regulations
to be made or given to the Registrar, and all other communications between an applicant or a
person making such request or giving such notice and the Registrar, and between the registered
proprietor of a design and the Registrar or any other person, may be signed, made or given by or
through an agent.
(2)
Any such applicant, person making request or giving notice, or proprietor may appoint
an agent to act for him in any proceedings or matter before or affecting the Registrar
under the Act and these Regulations by signing and sending to the Registrar an authority
to that effect in form No. 30 or in such other written form as the Registrar may deem
sufficient. In case of such appointment, service upon the agent of any document relating
to the proceedings or matter shall be deemed to be service upon the person so appointing
him, all communications directed to be made to such person in respect of the
proceedings or matter may be addressed to such agent, and all attendances upon the
Registrar relating thereto may be made by or through such agent. In any particular case
the Registrar may require the personal signature or presence of an applicant, proprietor
or other person.
(3)
The Registrar shall not be bound to recognize as such agent any person (a)
Who has been proved to him to have been guilty of conduct discreditable to an
agent; or
(b)
Who has been convicted of a criminal offence and sentenced to imprisonment
without the option of a fine; or
(c)
Who has been suspended form practice as a legal practitioner or whose name
has been struck off a roll of legal practitioners whether in Malawi or elsewhere;
or
(d)
Who has been adjudged guilty of conduct discreditable to a patent agent; or
(e)
Who has been suspended fro practice as a patent agent or whose name has been
erased from the register of patent agents kept under the Patents Act and not
subsequently restored.
Agency
Cap. 49:02
A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of a partnership shall contain the names of
all the partners in full and may be signed by a partner or by any other person who satisfies the
Signature of documents
Registrar that he is authorized to sign the document.
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