Rule 15

Drawings

1 - Drawings, when furnished under section 10 by the applicants otherwise than on requisition made by the Controller, shall accompany the specifications to which they relate.

2 - No drawings or sketch, which would require a special illustration of the specification, shall appear in the specification itself.

3 - At least one copy of the drawing shall be prepared neatly and clearly on a durable paper sheet.

4 - Drawings shall be on standard A4 size sheets with a clear margin of at least 4 cm on the top and left hand and 3cm at the bottom and right hand of every sheet.

5 - Drawings shall be on a scale sufficiently large to show the inventions clearly and dimensions shall not be marked on the drawings.

6 - Drawings shall be sequentially or systematically numbered and shall bear-

6(i) - in the left hand top corner, the name of the applicant;

6(ii) - in the right hand top corner, the number of the sheets of drawings, and the consecutive number of each sheet; and

6(iii) - in the right hand bottom corner, the signature of the applicant or his agent.

7 - No descriptive matter shall appear on the drawings except in the flow diagrams.

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