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Guidelines
for registration of your Design
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- Design:
A design is something which is applied to an
'article' and further such article should have
'appeal and to be judged solely by the eye'. The
appearance of such design must be striking and it
should be 'new or original '. Hence a design in
order to be entitled for registration under the
Designs Act ,1911 must be either new or original
but not previously published in India. Therefore
'novelty' and 'originality' are important in a
design for registration.
- Registration
of Design:
i) Registration of design is
being done by the 'Design Cell' at Patent Ofice, Calcutta. Hence
the applicant should send the Design application
to the Calcutta Design Cell. The whole
registration process should be completed within
the period of six months as per The Designs Act.
ii) The important thing is that
such new design article should not be sold to
public before filing application for design. It
means that it will be sold only after filing
application , otherwise the 'novelty' in the said
design will be lost.
iii) The design will be valid for 15
years subject to renewal for every five years.
- Requirement
of Particulars:
I) Name and address of the proprietor
or Partners of company.
ii) Authorization Form typed and
signed in required stamp paper in form of Attorney
or Agent.
iii)The following photographic works (three dimensional
) of the new design article will be sent.
a)TOP VIEW
b) BOTTOM
VIEW
c)BACK VIEW
d)FRONT VIEW
e) SIDE
VIEW
IV) The particulars of 'novelty' (shape and
configuration ) residing in which part of the
design article.
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