Section 17 Patents and Designs Act 1971

Section 17 of the Patents and Designs Act 1971 is about Registration and publication. It is under ‘Designs’ of the Act. It provides as follows:

(1) An industrial design shall be registered by the issue to the applicant of a registration certificate containing-
(a) the number of the design in order of registration;

(b) the name and address of the registered owner and, if that address is outside
Nigeria, an address for service in Nigeria;
(c) the date of the application and of the issue of the registration certificate;

(d) if foreign priority is claimed–
(i) an indication of the fact; and
(ii) the number and date of the application on which the claim is based and
the name of the country where the application was made;
(e) a reproduction or representation of the design and an indication of the kind (or, where a classification has been prescribed, the class) of products for which it
will be used; and
(f) where appropriate, the name and address of the true creator.

(2) The registrar shall maintain a register of industrial designs which shall consist of duplicates of the registration certificates issued under subsection (1) of this section, together with such further matter as is required by this Act to be registered.

(3) As soon as may be after a design has been registered under subsection (1) of this section, the registrar shall cause to be published–
(a) a notification of the registration containing the details mentioned in para-
graphs (a) to (f) of that subsection; or
(b) if a summary form of notification is prescribed, a notification in that form.

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