DESIGNS ACT
NO. 195 OF 1993
[View Regulation]
[ASSENTED TO 22 DECEMBER, 1993]
[DATE OF COMMENCEMENT: 1 MAY, 1995]
(English text signed by the State President)
as amended by
Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act, No. 38 of 1997
ACT
To provide for the registration of designs and for matters connected therewith.
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Definitions
Application of Act
State bound
Continuation of designs office
Seal of designs office
Registrar of designs
Register of designs
Inspection of register
Registrar to furnish information from register on request
Publication in journal
Powers of registrar
Exercise of discretionary power by registrar
R
epresentation
Application for registration
Registration of design
Refusal of application
Disclosure without proprietor’s knowledge or consent
Certificate of registration
Inspection by public
Effect of registration of design
Compulsory licence in case of abuse of rights
Duration of registration
Restoration of lapsed registration
Compensation arising from restoration
Joint ownership of registered design
Correction of clerical errors and amendment of documents
Amendment of application for registration, and of registration, of design
Rectification of register
Assignment and devolution by operation of law
Assignment of rights in and attachment or hypothecation of registered
designs
Grounds for application for revocation of registration of design
Registration comprising more than one design
After revocation on ground of fraud proprietor may in certain circumstances
again register design
Voluntary surrender of registered design
Proceedings for infringement
Declaration as to non-infringement
Remedy for groundless threats of infringement proceedings