No. 4907 Government Gazette 23 March 2012 Act No. 1, 2012 15 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY ACT, 2012 Register of industrial property 7. (1) The Office must, in the prescribed form and manner, maintain appropriate registers for industrial property, including separate registers for patents, utility models, industrial designs, trade marks and any licence contracts or changes in ownership made in respect industrial property rights. (2) Certification trade marks and collective trade marks must be registered in a special section of the register of trade marks. (3) All the recordals provided for in this Act must be made in the appropriate registers. (4) The registers maintained in terms of this section must be open to the public at such times as maybe determined by the Registrar and any person may, on payment of the prescribed fee and in the manner prescribed, consult the registers or obtain extracts from the registers. Inspection of records 8. (1) Any person may, on payment of the prescribed fee and in the manner prescribed, inspect the official file containing all documents lodged in support of an application but – (a) in the case of patents, utility models, and industrial designs, the file is open for inspection from the date on which the grant of the application is published as contemplated in section 39, 86 and 105(2); and (b) in the case of trade marks, the file is open for inspection from the date on which the acceptance is published as contemplated in section 146(6). (2) The file relating to an application for a patent, utility model, industrial design or trade mark may be inspected before the grant of the patent or utility model or the registration of the industrial design or trade mark only with written consent of the applicant. (3) Any person may, on request in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, obtain copies or extracts from any document or entry open to public inspection. (4) Even before the grant of a patent or a utility model or the registration of an industrial design or a trade mark, the Office may, on request, communicate the following bibliographic data: (a) the name and address of the applicant and the name and address of the applicant’s agent, if any; (b) the number of the application;