Click Here & Upgrade PDF Complete Expanded Features Unlimited Pages Documents shall refer to the function and operation of the integrated circuit topography, mask work or series of mask works. 16. 17. (4) The explanatory statement may be used to assist in interpreting the scope of the protection afforded by the design registration. (1) An application shall include publication particulars, on Form D8, which shall include a brief statement of the features of the design, to the satisfaction of the registrar, but which shall not be used to interpret the scope of the definitive statement. The brief statement of features shall be in narrative form and generally limited to a single paragraph of not more than 150 words. The statement shall refer to the article or articles to which the design is to be applied. The publication particulars shall be published in the journal. (2) Save as provided for in subregulation (3), the publication particulars shall be accompanied by a single representation of the design in a form suitable for publication in the journal. Features mentioned in the brief statement of features and illustrated and identified by reference symbols in the accompanying representation may be identified by the relevant reference symbols in the statement of features. (3) In the case of an application for the registration of a design for an integrated circuit topography, a mask work or a series of mask works, the publication particulars need not be accompanied by a representation of the design for publication in the journal where the representations as lodged in terms of regulations 12 and 18, by reason of size or for other reasons, are not suitable to form the basis of a representation for publication in the journal. Applications in terms of section 44 of the Act (1) Where an application for registration of a design is made pursuant to an application in a convention country in terms of section 44 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as a 'convention application'), the Form D1 lodged in support of the convention application shall state the name of the convention country, the official date of the application in the convention country and the official filing number allocated to such application. (2) In addition to the documents required under regulation 12 (1), the applicant in a convention application shall furnish the registrar with a certificate by the registering authority of the convention country verifying, to the satisfaction of the registrar, the application made in the convention country. If the certificate is in a language other than an official language of the Republic, it shall be accompanied by a translation into one of the official languages, which translation shall be verified to the satisfaction of the registrar. (3) The certificate referred to in subregulation (2) shall be lodged within six months of the lodging of the convention application or within such further period as the registrar may on request allow. (4) A convention application, if not made by the applicant in the convention country, shall contain also an assignment or other proof, to the satisfaction of the registrar, of the applicant's right to file the convention application. (5) If after an application for registration of a design has been lodged, the applicant desires to insert a claim to a priority right or to a further priority right by inserting on the Form D1 the appropriate information as provided for in subregulation (1), a request on Form D4 shall be lodged with payment of the prescribed fee within two months from the date on which the application for registration was lodged.