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ARTICLE · 24 MAY 2011

No Right To Sell A Product Having A Design Identical With A Registered Design

Section 22 of the Designs Act, 2000, lays down the acts which amount to piracy of Designs.

IndiaIntellectual Property
Sonam Lhamu Bhutia
Sonam Lhamu Bhutia
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Section 22 of the Designs Act, 2000, lays down the acts which amount to piracy of Designs. It provides that during the existence of copyright in any design it is unlawful for any person-

(a) for the purpose of sale to apply or cause to be applied to any article in any class of articles in which the design is registered, the design or any fraudulent or obvious imitation thereof, except with the licence or written consent of the registered proprietor, or to do anything with a view to enable the design to be so applied; or

(b) to import for the purposes of sale, without the consent of the registered proprietor, any article belonging to the class in which the design has been registered, and having applied to it the design or any fraudulent or obvious imitation thereof; or

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