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Designs Act, 1911 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1911

DESIGNS ACT, 1911 DESIGNS ACT, 1911 2 of 1911 An Act to amend the law relating to the protection of Designs. Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to the protection of designs; it is hereby enacted as follows :- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT. (1) This Act may be called the Designs Act, 1911. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on the first day of January, 1912. SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:- (1) ** (2) "article" means any article of manufacture and any substance, artificial or natural, or partly artificial and partly natural; (3) "Controller" means the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks appointed under sub-section (1) ofsection 4 of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 (43 of 1958) -; (4) "copyright" means the exclusive right to apply a design to any article in any class in which the design is registered ; (5) "design" means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to any article by any industrial process or means, whether manual, mechanical or chemical, separate or combined, which.....