Section 44 Interpretation.P1

In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned by them, that is to say

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• F2. . .

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• “assignee” includes the personal representative of a deceased assignee, and references to the assignee of any person include references to the assignee of the personal representative or assignee of that person;

• F3 “ author ”in relation to a design, has the meaning given by section 2(3) and (4);

• F4. . .

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• F5 “ the court ” shall be construed in accordance with section 27 of this Act;

• F6. . .

• F7“complex product” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(3) of this Act;

• “design” has the meaning assigned to it by F8F9section 1(2) of this Act;

• F10“electronic communication” has the same meaning as in the Electronic Communications Act 2000;

• F11 “ employee ”, “ employment ”, and “ employer ” refer to employment under a contract of service or of apprenticeship,

• “national unregistered design right” means design right within the meaning of Part III of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;

• F12. . .

• “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by F13the Secretary of State under this Act;

• “product” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(3) of this Act;

• “proprietor” has the meaning assigned to it by section two of this Act;

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• “registered proprietor” means the person or persons for the time being entered in the register of designs as proprietor of the design;

• “registrar” means the Comptroller-General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks;

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For the purposes of subsection (1) of F15section 14 of this Act, the expression “personal representative”, in relation to a deceased person, includes the legal representative of the deceased appointed in any country outside the United Kingdom.