The Registered Designs Rules 1995

CONVENTION APPLICATIONS

Declarations

27.  An application for registration under section 14 shall contain a declaration that the application in a convention country upon which the applicant relies is the first application made in a convention country in respect of the design, whether by the applicant or by any person of whom he claims to be the personal representative or assignee, and shall specify the convention country in which such foreign application was made, or is to be deemed under section 14(4) to have been made, and the official date thereof.

Copies and translations

28.—(1) In addition to the representations or specimens filed with every convention application there shall be filed with the application, or within three months thereafter, a copy of the representation of the design filed or deposited in respect of the first application in a convention country, duly certified by the authority with which it was filed or otherwise verified to the satisfaction of the registrar.

(2) If any certificate or other document relating to the application is in a language other than English, a translation thereof into English verified to the satisfaction of the registrar as corresponding to the original text shall be annexed thereto.