LAWS OF MALAWI Registered Designs Registered Designs(Tribunal) Rules Cap. 49:05 [Subsidiary] REGISTERED DESIGNS (TRIBUNAL) RULES G.N. 274/1958(F) 5/1964(M) 166/1967 Under Section 38 PRELIMINARY 1. These rules may be cited as the Registered Designs (Tribunal) Rules and shall come into operation o the 1st December 1958. 2. In these rules, unless inconsistent with the context:- Citation Interpretation “Office” means the Designs Office “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Patents Tribunal; “section” means a section of the Act. PART 1 APPEALS 3. L.R.O. 1/1993 (1) Any person who desires to appeal to the Tribunal from a decision of the Registrar of Designs in any matter in which a right of appeal is given under the Act shall, within three months after the date of the decision, file with the registrar of the Tribunal a notice in form D.T. No. 1. (2) A notice of appeal shall state the nature of the decision appealed against and whether the appeal is from the whole or part only and, if so, what part of the decision, and shall be accompanied by a statement in writing of the appellant’s grounds of appeal. (3) The appellant shall send a copy of the notice of appeal to the Registrar of Designs and to any person or persons who appeared or gave notice of opposition in the proceedings before the said Registrar. (4) The appellant shall be responsible for the preparation of the record which shall be certified by the Registrar of Designs as correct in terms of sub-rule (7). (5) The Registrar of Designs as well as the parties or their legal practitioners shall endeavour to exclude from the record all documents (more particularly such as are purely formal) that are not relevant to the subject matter of the appeal, and generally to reduce the bulk of the record as far as practicable, and to avoid the production of unnecessary exhibits, taking special care to avoid the duplication of documents and the unnecessary repetition of headings, and furnish merely the formal particulars of documents; but the documents omitted to be copied shall be enumerated in a list to be placed after the index or at the end of the record. 82