LAWS OF MALAWI Registered Designs Registered Designs Cap. 49:05 “Court” means the High Court: “Design” means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process or means being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye, but does not include a method or principle of construction or features of shape or configuration which are dictated solely by the function which the article to be made in that shape or configuration has to perform; “Designs Office” means the Designs Office established under section 3; “Legal representative” means – (a) the liquidator or receiver of a company; (b) the representative recognized by law of any person who has died, become insolvent or bankrupt, assigned his estate, is an infant or a minor, or of unsound mind, or is otherwise under a disability; “Patent Journal” means the journal for which provision is made in Section 95 of the Patents Act; “Proprietor” has the meaning assigned to it by Section 8; “registered proprietor” mans the person or persons for the time being entered in the register as the proprietor of the design; “Registrar” means the Registrar of Designs appointed under Section 4; “set of articles” means a number of articles of the same general character ordinarily on sale or intended to be used together, to each of which the same design, or the same design with modifications or variations not sufficient to alter the character or substantially to affect the identity thereof, is applied; “Tribunal” means the Patents Tribunal established under the Patents Act. Cap. 49:02 (2) Any reference in this Act to an article in respect of which a design is registered shall, in the case of a design registered in respect of a set of articles, be construed as a reference to any article of that set. (3) Any question arising under this Act whether a number of articles constitutes a set of articles shall be determined by the Registrar; and notwithstanding anything in this Act any determination of the Registrar under this subsection shall be final. PART I ADMINISTRATION 3. 4. There shall be established under the direction of the Minister an office to be called the Designs Office. There shall be appointed: Establishment of Designs Office Appointment of officers 5