Article 7 Convention applications

Where an application for the registration of a design or designs is made by virtue of section 14 the applicant shall comply with the following provisions.

The application shall contain a declaration specifying—

The applicant shall, before the end of the period of 3 months F1beginning immediately after the date on which the application was filed, file at the Patent Office a copy of the representation of the design that was the subject of each convention application.

A copy of the representation filed under paragraph (3) shall be—

Paragraph (3) shall not apply where a copy of the convention application is kept at the Patent Office.

Where any document relating to the convention application is in a language other than English or Welsh, the registrar may direct the applicant to provide a translation of the whole or any part of that document.

The translation shall be filed before the end of the period of 3 months F2beginning immediately after the date of the direction.

Where the applicant—

the convention application shall be disregarded for the purposes of section 14(2).

In this rule “convention application” means an application for the protection of a design which has been made in a convention country.