Designs Act, 2000

Section - 1 - Short title, extent and commencement

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Section - 2 - Definitions

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Section - 3 - Controller and other officers

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Section - 4 - Prohibition of registration of certain designs

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Section - 5 - Application for registration of designs

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Section - 6 - Registration to be in respect of particular article

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Section - 7 - Publication of particulars of registered designs

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Section - 8 - Power of Controller to make orders regarding substitution of application, etc

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Section - 9 - Certificate of registration

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Section - 10 - Register of designs

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Section - 11 - Copyright on registration

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Section - 12 - Restoration of lapsed designs

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Section - 13 - Procedure for disposal of applications for restoration of lapsed designs

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Section - 14 - Rights of proprietor of lapsed design which have been restored

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Section - 15 - Requirements before delivery on sales

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Section - 16 - Effect of disclosure on copyright

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Section - 17 - Inspection of registered designs

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Section - 18 - Information as to existence of copyright

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Section - 19 - Cancellation of registration

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Section - 20 - Designs to bind Government

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Section - 21 - Provisions as to exhibitions

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Section - 22 - Piracy of registered design

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Section - 23 - Application of certain provisions of the Act as to patents to designs

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Section - 24 - Fees

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Section - 25 - Notice of trust not to be entered in registers

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Section - 26 - Inspection of and extracts from registers

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Section - 27 - Privilege of reports of Controller

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Section - 28 - Prohibition and publication of specification, drawings, etc., where applica­tion abandoned, etc

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Section - 29 - Power of Controller to correct clerical errors

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Section - 30 - Entry of assignment and transmissions in registers

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Section - 31 - Rectification of register

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Section - 32 - Powers of Controller in proceedings under Act

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Section - 33 - Exercise of discretionary power by Controller

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Section - 34 - Power of Controller to take directions of the Central Government

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Section - 35 - Refusal to register a design in certain cases

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Section - 36 - Appeals to the High Court

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Section - 37 - Evidence before the Controller

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Section - 38 - Certificate of Controller to be evidence

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Section - 39 - Evidence of documents in patent office

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Section - 40 - Applications and notices by post

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Section - 41 - Declaration by infant, lunatic, etc

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Section - 42 - Avoidance of certain restrictive conditions

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Section - 43 - Agency

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Section - 44 - Reciprocal arrangement with the United Kingdom and other convention coun­tries or group of countries or inter-governmental organisations

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Section - 45 - Report of the Controller to be placed before Parliament

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Section - 46 - Protection of security of India

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Section - 47 - Power of Central Government to make rules

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Section - 48 - Repeal and savings

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