Industrial Designs Order, 1999 · As enacted · Part III
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Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Subject to any agreement to the contrary, where there is more than one registered owner of an industrial design, each of them shall be entitled to an undivided share in 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
(2J Subject to this section and to any agreement to the contrary, where there is more than one registered owner of an industrial design, each of them shall be entitled, by himself or his agent, to do in respect of the industrial design, for his own benefit and without the consent of or the need to account to any other registered owner, any act which would apart from this subsection and section 36
constitute an infringement of that industrial design; and any such act shall be deemed not to constitute an infringement of that industrial design.
Subject to section 41 and to any agreement to the contrary, where there is more than one registered owner of an industrial design, no registered owner shall, without the consent of each of the others, grant a licence under the industrial design or assign or mortgage a share in it.
Nothing in subsections (1) or (2) affects the mutual rights or obligations of trustees or of the personal representatives of a deceased person, or their rights or obligations as such.
Terms defined in s 2
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
Part IV
Use by Government of Industrial Designs
Part VI