The Patents and Designs Act , Cap. 417 Act XVII of 2000, amended in 2023, applies to patents and design. It provides protection for the protection of designs and models of manufacture. The Act defines ‘designs’ as the appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features of a series of elements conducive to distinguishing identities. A design is considered to display individual character if the general impression it has on the informed user differs from the overall impression produced by any other design which has been made available to the public before the date of filing of the application for registration or, if priority is claimed, before the priority date. A design right is protected for a period of five years from the date of filing of the application and is renewable for one or more periods of five years each up to a total term of 25 years.
The Building Regulation Act Cap. 513 addresses the construction of buildings and related matters.
The Digital Content and Digital Services Contracts Regulations, 2021, was published by means of Legal Notice 406 of 2021 on the 29 October 2021 and came into force on 1 January 2022. The purpose of these Regulations is to transpose Directive (EU) 2019/770 of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services. These regulations, lay down common rules on certain requirements concerning contracts between traders and consumers for the supply of digital content or digital services, in particular, rules on:
- the conformity of digital content or a digital service with the contract;
- remedies in the event of a lack of such conformity or a failure to supply, and the modalities for the exercise of those remedies, and
- the modification of digital content or a digital service.
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