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Further, the design is only a design, for the purposes of the Designs Act, when it is used in relation to the registered product. [3] This illustrates that the registration of the design does not protect the business against the same design being used on other products; the pattern itself cannot be registered. [ 4 ]
According to industrial property Act 2001, an industrial design is defined as "any composition of lines or colours or any three-dimensional form whether or not associated with lines or colours, provided that such composition or form gives a special appearance to a product of industry or handicraft and can serve as pattern for a product of industry or handicraft" .
An application may be filed in English, French, or Spanish, at the choice of the applicant. The application must contain one or more views of the designs concerned and can include up to 100 different designs provided that the designs are all in the same class of the International Classification of Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification).
The Industrial Designs Act, 2003 (ACT 660) is a Ghanaian act to revise the enactments on the protection of industrial designs and to provide for related matters. The Act is one of the Seven Acts that exist to protect Intellectual Property Rights in Ghana [1] namely; Protection against Unfair Competition Act, 2000 (Act 589); Industrial Designs Act, 2003 (Act 660); Geographical Indications Act ...
India has the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout Design Act, 2000 for the similar protection. Japan relies on "The Act Concerning the Circuit Layout of a Semiconductor Integrated Circuit". Brazil has enacted Law No. 11484, of 2007, to regulate the protection and registration of integrated circuit topography.
All activity under the London Act (1934) will terminate at the latest on December 31, 2024. The latest Act of the Hague Agreement is the Geneva Act (1999) – signed on July 2, 1999 – which came into effect on December 23, 2003. Both the Geneva Act (1999) and the Hague Act (1960) – two independent acts of the Hague Agreement – are in force.
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An Act to restate the law of copyright, with amendments; to make fresh provision as to the rights of performers and others in performances; to confer a design right in original designs; to amend the Registered Designs Act 1949; to make provision with respect to patent agents and trade mark agents; to confer patents and designs jurisdiction on ...