Section 18 — Industrial Designs Order, 1999

(1)

An applicant who desires to take advantage of the priority of a previous application shall file with the Registrar in the prescribed manner a statement of priority.

(2)

Where a statement of priority is filed in accordance with this section, the applicant shall for the purposes of proceedings before the Registrar be deemed to be entitled to enjoy the right of priority shown in the statement.

(3)

Where a declaration claiming priority from an earlier application has been made and where the Registrar is of the opinion that the validity of the claim to priority is relevant to the determination of whether the industrial design is new or involves an inventive step, the applicant or the proprietor of an industrial design granted on the application shall, if requested by the Registrar, furnish in respect of every application specified in the declaration –

(a)

its file number; and

(b)

either –

(i)

a copy of that application duly certified by the authority with which it was filed; or

(ii)

a copy of that application accompanied by a statutory declaration or affidavit or otherwise verified to the satisfaction of the

Registrar, that the copy corresponds to the original of that application.

Effect of priority right.