The Registered Designs (Amendment) Rules 2001

6.—(1) Rule 15 shall be amended as follows.

(2) For the heading there shall be substituted “Partial disclaimers in relation to applications”.

(3) For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—

(1) An application may be accompanied by a partial disclaimer, in a form satisfactory to the registrar, indicating that the design is the appearance of a part only of a product or limiting the scope or extent of protection of the design to be conferred by registration.

(4) In paragraph (2), for the word “statement”, where it first appears, there shall be substituted “disclaimer” and the words “and it shall be separate from any other statement or disclaimer” shall be omitted.