Innovative products are characterized by their design. Thus, securing exclusive rights to the design of a product is a critical first step for an inventor seeking to market such a product. It is possible to accomplish this by registering the product’s design with particular entities so consumers can identify and relate the product to its…
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Online Design Registration Application
Under design registration, a newly created design can be protected from counterfeiting if it is applied to an article created using an industrial process. The creator of a design is granted exclusive use rights for ten years, which can be extended for five more years. Under the Design Act, 2000, any shape, configuration, pattern, or…
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How does the Designs Act, 2000 define ‘Design’? The term ‘design’ includes only one or more of the following features: shape, configuration, pattern, ornament, or combination of lines or colors applied to any article, whether two-dimensional or three-dimensional, or in both forms, by any industrial process or means, Manually, mechanically, or chemically, separate or combined,…