Design
Design registration is a type of intellectual property protection, under which a newly created design applied to an article created under an industrial process can be protected from counterfeiting.
Design Procedure
There are two ways through which you can register your design, one by filing your application physically or second by filing online. You have to visit the design office along with the designs for which protection is required with necessary documents and appropriate code.
Design Flowchart
From the below flowchart you will come to know the various stages involved in the registration of the design.
Design Filing Fees and Forms
- Form 1 - Application for registration of design
- Form 2 - Claim under to proceed as an applicant or joint applicant.
- Form 3 - Application for Extension of copyright.
- Form 4 - Application for the Restoration of design
- Form 5 - Request for inspection
- Form 6 - Request for search
- Form 7 - Request for search
- Form 8 - Petition for cancellation for registration of a design.
- Form 9 - Notice of intended exhibition or publication of unregistered design.
- Form 10 - Application for registration of a document in the Register Design.
- Form 11 - Application for entry of name of proprietor or part proprietor in the Register
- Form 12 - Application for entry of mortgage or licence in the Register.
- Form 13 - Application for entry of notification of document in the Register.
- Form 14 - Request for correction of clerical error.
- Form 15 - Request for certified copy.
- Form 16 - Application for certified copy of registered design.
- Form 17 - Application for rectification of Register.
- Form 18 - Application for extension of time for filing priority document
- Form 19 - Notice of opposition.
- Form 20 - Notice of intention to attend hearing.
- Form 21 - Power of authority to agents.
- Form 22 - Notice of alteration of address or name or an address for service in the Register
- Form 23 - Request for entries of two addresses for service in register
- Form 24 - To be submitted for claiming the status of a entity
Design Act India
Under the Design Act, 2000, a shape, configuration, pattern or ornament or composition of lines or colour or combination applied to any article can be registered. The design provides protection to the visual and aesthetic features of an article. The term design is 10+5 years in general.