Intellectual Property and Technology
The Designs Act, 2000
Act 16 of 2000 · 48 sections
Practise questions on Intellectual Property Law
Title, date and preamble
[25th May, 2000.]
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to protection of designs.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
Contents
CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
CHAPTER II 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
CHAPTER III 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
CHAPTER IV INDUSTRIAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
CHAPTER V LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
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