Section 23

The Registrar may amend an application for registration of an industrial design on request made to him by the applicant in the prescribed manner.

An application for registration of an industrial design shall not be amended under subsection (1) if, as a result of the amendment, the scope of the application would be increased by the inclusion of any matter that was not in substance disclosed in the application initially filed or if, as a result of the amendment, the initial design was or, if there is more than one, any of the initial designs were altered.

Where a request for amendment of an application for registration of an industrial design has been granted under subsection (1), and the amendment has the effect of excluding one or more industrial designs from the application initially filed, the applicant may at any time while the initial application is pending make a further application for registration of the industrial design or industrial designs so excluded.

Incorporating amendments until S 3/2020

(Clean version) Norhasnani/fiqah/Karimah_as of 8th June 2020

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BLUV as at 13th February 2020

Where, after an application for registration has been filed and before the industrial design is registered, a further application is filed by the original applicant or his successor in title in accordance with the regulations in respect of any part of the matter contained in the earlier application and the conditions mentioned in section 15 are satisfied in relation to the new application (without the new application contravening the provisions of subsection (2)), the new application shall be treated as having, as its date of filing, the date of filing the earlier application.

Rights in applications.