DESIGNS ACT, 2000

No       Descripton

PRELIMINARY

 

1.         Short title, extent and commencement

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

                                                           

GENERAL

 

                        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 or 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 SAVING

 

48.        Repeal and savings