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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Designs Act, 1911 [Repealed] Section 54

Application of Certain Provisions of the Act as to Patents to Designs

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Designs Act, 1911 [Repealed] Section 54 is part of Designs Act, 1911 [Repealed] - Application of Certain Provisions of the Act as to Patents to Designs. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1[The provisions of the Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970)] with regard to certificates of the validity of a patent, and to the remedy in case of groundless threats of legal proceedings by a patentee shall apply in the case of registered designs in like manner as they apply in the case of patents, with the substitution of references to the copyright in a design for references to a patent, and of references to the proprietor of a design for references to the patentee, and of references to the designs for references to the invention.

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1. Substituted by Act 39 of 1970, section 162 and Schedule, for certain word (w.e.f. 20-4-1972).

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