The Designs Act 2000

THE DESIGNS ACT, 2000 No. 16 of 2000

SECTION 1: Short title, extent and commencement

SECTION 2: Definitions

SECTION 3: Controller and other officers

SECTION 4: Prohibition of registration of certain designs

SECTION 5: Application for registration of designs

SECTION 6: Registration to be in respect of particular article

SECTION 7: Publication of particulars of registered designs

SECTION 8: Power of Controller to make orders regarding substitution of application, etc.

SECTION 9: Certificate of registration

SECTION 10: Register of designs

SECTION 11: Copyright on registration

SECTION 12: Restoration of lapsed designs

SECTION 13: Procedure for disposal of applications for restoration of lapsed designs

SECTION 14: Rights of proprietor of lapsed design which have been restored

SECTION 15: Requirements before delivery on sales

SECTION 16: Effect of disclosure on copyright

SECTION 17: Inspection of registered designs

SECTION 18: Information as to the existence of copyright

SECTION 19: Cancellation of registration

SECTION 20: Designs to bind Government

SECTION 21: Provisions as to exhibitions

SECTION 22: Piracy of registered design

SECTION 23: Application of certain provisions of the Act as to patents to designs

SECTION 24: Fees

SECTION 25: Notice of trust not to be entered in registers

SECTION 26: Inspection of and extracts from registers

SECTION 27: Privilege of reports of Controller

SECTION 28: Prohibition and publication of specification, drawings, etc. where application abandoned, etc.

SECTION 29: Power of Controller to correct clerical errors

SECTION 30: Entry of assignment and transmissions in registers

SECTION 31: Rectification of register

SECTION 32: Powers of Controller in proceedings under Act

SECTION 33: Exercise of discretionary power by Controller

SECTION 34: Power of Controller to take directions of the Central Government

SECTION 35: Refusal to register a design in certain cases

SECTION 36: Appeals to High Court

SECTION 37: Evidence before the Controller

SECTION 38: Certificate of Controller to be evidence

SECTION 39: Evidence of documents in patent office

SECTION 40: Applications and notices by post

SECTION 41: Declaration by infant, lunatic, etc.

SECTION 42: Avoidance of certain restrictive conditions

SECTION 43: Agency

SECTION 44: Reciprocal arrangement with the United Kingdom and other convention countries or group of countries or inter-governmental organizations

SECTION 45: Report of the Controller to be placed before Parliament

SECTION 46: Protection of security of India

SECTION 47: Power of Central Government to make rules

SECTION 48: Repeal and savings