Patents and Designs Act, (II of 1911)

From: 1912-01-01 - To: 0000-00-00 The Pakistan Patents and Designs Act, 1911 ________________________________________ Section: 1 Short Title, extent and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Patents and Designs Act, 1911. (2) It extends to the whole of Pakistan. (3) It shall come into force on the first day of January 1912. Section: 2 Definitions. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (1) "Advocate General" includes the Attorney General for Pakistan: (2) "article" means (as respects designs) any article of manufacture and any substance, artificial or natural or partly artificial and partly natural: (3) "Controller" means the Controller of Patents and Designs appointed under this Act: (4) "copyright" means the exclusive right to apply a design to any article in any class in which the design is registered: (5) "design" means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to any article by any industrial process or means, whether manual, mechanical or chemical, separate or combined, which is the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye; but does not include any mode or principle of construction or anything which is in substance a mere mechanical device, and does not include any trade mark as defined in section 478, as amended from time to time, or property mark as defined in section 479 of the Pakistan Penal Code: (6) "District Court" has the meaning assigned to that expression by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908: (7) **deleted. (8) "invention" means any manner of new manufacture and includes an improvement and an alleged invention: (9) "legal representative" means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person: (10) "manufacture" includes any art, process or manner of producing, preparing or making an article, and also any article prepared or produced by manufacture: (11) "patent" means a patent granted under the provisions of this Act: (12) "patentee" means the person for the time being entered on the register of patents kept under this Act as the grantee or proprietor of the patent: (13) "prescribed" includes prescribed by rules under this Act: and (14)…