LAWS OF MALAWI
Patents
(Subsidiary)
Cap. 49:02
Patents Regulations
56.
An application for leave to amend a specification shall be accompanied by a
copy certified by the applicant or his agent of the original specification, or of
those pages of specification or drawings in which the proposed amendment
appears, clearly showing in red ink the amendment sought.
Certified copy of
original
specification
to
accompany
application.
57.
(1) Any person wishing to oppose an application for amendment under
regulation 55 shall give notice to the Registrar in form No. 33.
Opposition.
58.
(2)
Such notice shall be accompanied by a statement setting out fully the
nature of the objector’s interest, the facts upon which he relies and the
relief he seeks.
(3)
A copy of the notice and of any statement which accompanies such
notice shall be served by the objector on the applicant.
(4)
Upon notice of opposition being given regulations 25 or 29 inclusive
and 43 shall mutatis mutandis apply in respect of the proceedings held
before the Registrar under section 43 of the Act.
(1) When leave to amend a specification is given the applicant shall, if the
Registrar so requires and within a time to be fixed by him, lodge a new
specification and drawings as amended.
(2)
New specification
and drawings as
amended may be
required.
Where an application for leave to amend a specification made
pursuant to an order of the Tribunal or of a Court such application
shall be accompanied by a copy of such order certified by the registrar
of the Tribunal or Court, as the case may be.
PART XI
DERECTONS TO CO-OWNERS
59.
(1) An application for directions under section 47 (6) of the Act by any one or
more of the proprietors of a patent shall be made in form No. 34 and shall be
accompanied by a statement setting out fully the facts upon which the applicant
relief and the directions which he seeks.
(2)
A copy of the application and of the statement shall be sent by the
Registrar to each of the other proprietors of the patent, and the
applicant shall supply a sufficient number of copies for that purpose.
(3)
Thereafter the Registrar shall appoint a time for the hearing of the
case and shall give the parties at least fourteen days’ notice of the
appointment.
(4)
After hearing the party or parties desiring to be heard or, if none of the
parties desires to be heard, then without a hearing the Registrar shall
give directions in accordance with section 47(6) of the Act.
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Application under
section 47(6).