A.22 “Common Regulations” means, in respect of industrial designs, the Common Regulations adopted under the Hague Agreement and, in respect of marks, the Common Regulations under the Madrid Protocol; “convention country” means a country which is a party to the Paris Convention; “Court” means the High Court of Botswana; “geographical indication” means an indication or sign which identifies goods as originating in the territory of a country or a region or locality in a country where a quality, reputation or other characteristic of the goods is essentially attributable to that geographical origin; “HARARE Protocol” means the Protocol on Patents and Industrial Designs Within the Framework of the African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO) adopted at Harare, Zimbabwe, on December 10, 1982 as last revised or amended; “industrial design” means any composition of lines or colours or any three dimensional form, whether or not associated with lines or colours, which gives a special appearance to a product of industry or handicraft; “integrated circuit” means a circuit, in its final or intermediate form, in which the elements, at least one of which is an active element, and some or all of the interconnections are integrally formed in or on a piece of material and that is intended to perform an electronic function; “International Bureau” means the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (in this Act referred to as “WIPO”); “International Classification”, in respect of marks, means the classification according to the Nice Agreement concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks, of June 15, 1957, as last revised or amended, and, in respect of industrial designs, means the classification according to the Locarno Agreement concerning the International Classification for Industrial Designs, of October 8, 1968, as last revised or amended; “International Patent Classification” means the classification according to the Strasbourg Agreement of March 24, 1971 as last revised or amended; “International Register” means the official collection of data concerning international registrations, as maintained by the International Bureau; “invention” means an idea of an inventor which permits in practice the solution to a specific problem in the field of technology; “Journal” means the journal of marks, patents and designs referred to in section 5 (e);

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