Industrial Designs Order, 1999 · As enacted · Part II · Registration of Industrial Designs
Section 12
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
{a) the disclosure of the industrial design by the owner within twelve months to any other person in such circumstances as would make it contrary to good faith for that other person to use or publish the industrial design;
industrial design
"industrial design" means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process, being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged by the eye, but does not include - fa} a method or principle of construction; or [i) are dictated solely by the function which the article has to perform; or
{c)
in the case of a new or original textile industrial design intended for registration, the acceptance of a first and confidential order for goods bearing the industrial design; or
{d)
the communication of the industrial design by the owner within twelve months to a government department or to any person authorised by a government department to consider the merits of the industrial design, or of anything done in consequence of such a communication.
An application for the registration of an industrial design shall not be refused, and the registration of an industrial design shall not be invalidated by reason only -
{a) that a representation of the industrial design, or any article to which the industrial design has been applied, has been displayed, with the consent of the owner of the industrial design at an official international exhibition;
{b)
that after any such display as is mentioned in paragraph {a), and during the period of the exhibition, a representation of the industrial design, or any article to which the industrial design has been applied, has been displayed by any person without the consent of the owner; or
{c)
that a representation of the industrial design has been published in consequence of any such display as is mentioned in paragraph {a), if the application for registration of the industrial design is made not later than six months after the opening of the exhibition.
application for registration
"application for registration" means an application for registration of an industrial design made under section 15; 61 29th. JANUARY, 2000 11article 11 means any article of manufacture and includes any part of an article if that part is made and sold separately;
~3) In this section,
110fficial international exhibition 11 means an official, or officially recognised, international exhibition falling within the terms of the Convention on International Exhibitions of 67 2000
Provisions as to confidential disclosure, etc.
Provisions as to artistic works.
Provisions as to registration of same design in respect of other articles, etc.
Terms defined in s 2
application for registration
Defined · s 2"application for registration" means an application for registration of an industrial design made under section 15; 61 29th. JANUARY, 2000 11article 11 means any article of manufacture and includes any part of an article if that part is made and sold separately;
industrial design
Defined · s 2"industrial design" means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process, being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged by the eye, but does not include - fa} a method or principle of construction; or [i) are dictated solely by the function which the article has to perform; or
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