Register

(1) The Registrar shall maintain a Register of Patents in which he shall record all matters required by this Act or the Regulations made there under to be recorded, and shall also, in a section of the Register created for that purpose, register utility (2) Any person may, upon payment of the prescribed fee, and in accordance with any prescribed conditions, consult, inspect or make a copy of, or obtain an extract from, the (3) The Register shall be prima facie evidence of anything required or authorized by this Act to be registered, and shall be admissible and sufficient evidence of any such thing. (4) A certificate signed by the Registrar and certifying that any entry which he is authorized by this Act to make has or has not been made, or that any other thing which he is authorized to do has or has not been done, shall be prima facie evidence, and shall be admissible and sufficient evidence of the matters so certified. (5) Each of the following, that is to say, a copy of– (a) an entry in the Register or an extract from the Register which is supplied under sub-section (2); and (b) any document kept in the Intellectual Property Office, or an extract from any such document, or any matter which has been published in the Journal, which is to be a certified copy or a certified extract, shall be admitted in evidence without further proof and without production of the original, and such evidence shall be sufficient evidence of the matters stated therein. (6) In this section, “certified copy” and “certified extract” means a copy or extract certified by the Registrar and sealed with his seal.