Piracy of registered Designs [Video]

Industrial design is a very prominent intellectual property intoday’s booming corporate world, protection of industrial design is important asit encourages creativity in the industrial and manufacturing sectors and helpsin the economic development of the nation. After the designs are registered theregistered proprietor receives exclusive rights on the design and itsapplication to any article in any class in which the design is registered if anyunauthorized person sells or uses the design to acquire commercial gain itconstitutes infringement.

Under section 22, the Infringement of registered designs is called piracy of designs. If an article of a registered design is used for the purpose of sale or for import for sale or an article of a registered design has fraudulent or obvious imitation, has been published or exposed without consent from the registered proprietor all these acts constitute piracy. The Designs Act,2000 also provides for remedies …