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The Designs Act

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to protection of designs.
2000
List of Chapters & Sections

  1. PRELIMINARY

  2. 1
     Short title, extent and commencement
  3. 2
     Definitions

  • REGISTRATION OF DESIGNS

  • 3
     Controller and other officers
  • 4
     Prohibition of registration of certain designs
  • 5
     Application for registration of designs
  • 6
     Registration to be in respect of particular article
  • 7
     Publication of particulars of registered designs
  • 8
     Power of Controller to make orders regarding substitution of application, etc
  • 9
     Certificate of registration
  • 10
     Register of designs

  • COPYRIGHT IN REGISTERED DESIGNS

  • 11
     Copyright on registration
  • 12
     Restoration of lapsed designs
  • 13
     Procedure for disposal of applications for restoration of lapsed designs
  • 14
     Rights of proprietor of lapsed design which have been restored
  • 15
     Requirements before delivery on sales
  • 16
     Effect of disclosure on copyright
  • 17
     Inspection of registered designs
  • 18
     Information as to existence of copyright
  • 19
     Cancellation of registration
  • 20
     Designs to bind Government

  • INDUSTRIAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

  • 21
     Provisions as to exhibitions

  • LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

  • 22
     Piracy of registered design
  • 23
     Application of certain provisions of the Act as to patents to designs

  • Fees

  • 24
     Fees

  • Provisions as to registers and other documents in the patent office

  • 25
     Notice of trust not to be entered in registers
  • 26
     Inspection of and extracts from registers
  • 27
     Privilege of reports of Controller
  • 28
     Prohibition and publication of specification, drawings, etc., where application abandoned, etc
  • 29
     Power of Controller to correct clerical errors
  • 30
     Entry of assignment and transmissions in registers
  • 31
     Rectification of register

  • POWERS AND DUTIES OF CONTROLLER

  • 32
     Powers of Controller in proceedings under Act
  • 33
     Exercise of discretionary power by Controller
  • 34
     Power of Controller to take directions of the Central Government
  • 35
     Refusal to register a design in certain cases
  • 36
     Appeals to the High Court

  • EVIDENCE, ETC.

  • 37
     Evidence before the Controller
  • 38
     Certificate of Controller to be evidence
  • 39
     Evidence of documents in patent office
  • 40
     Applications and notices by post
  • 41
     Declaration by infant, lunatic, etc
  • 42
     Avoidance of certain restrictive conditions

  • AGENCY

  • 43
     Agency

  • POWERS, ETC., OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

  • 44
     Reciprocal arrangement with the United Kingdom and other convention countries or group of countries of inter-governmental organisations
  • 45
     Report of the Controller to be placed before Parliament
  • 46
     Protection of security of India
  • 47
     Power of Central Government to make rules

  • REPEAL AND SAVINGS

  • 48
     Repeal and savings