Section 3 Applications for registration.F1

United Kingdom

(1)

An application for the registration of a designF2or designs F3... shall be filed at the Patent Office in the prescribed manner.

F4(2)

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(3)

An application for the registration of a designF5or designs in which national unregistered design right subsists shall be made by the person claiming to be the design right owner.

F6(4)

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(5)

An application for the registration of a design which, owing to any default or neglect on the part of the applicant, has not been completed so as to enable registration to be effected within such time as may be prescribed shall be deemed to be abandoned.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Ss. 3-3D substituted (9.12.2001) for s. 3 by S.I. 2001/3949, reg. 4 (with transitional provisions in regs. 10-14)
F2: Words in s. 3(1) inserted (1.10.2006) by Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1974), arts. 1(1), 11(2)
F3: Words in s. 3(1) omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 12(2), 24(1); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch.
F4: S. 3(2) omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 6(2), 24(1); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch.
F5: Words in s. 3(3) inserted (1.10.2006) by Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1974), arts. 1(1), 11(4)
F6: S. 3(4) omitted (1.10.2006) by virtue of Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1974), arts. 1(1), 4