Designs Act, 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 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 the 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 organisations

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

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