Designs Act : Application of certain provisions of the Act as to patents to designs. Indian Bare Acts

Designs Act,2000

Act No : 16

Section : Application of certain provisions of the Act as to patents to designs.

23. Application of certain provisions of the Act as to patents to designs.-The provisions of the Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970) with regard to certificates of the validity of a patent, and to the remedy in case of groundless threats of legal proceedings y a patentee shall apply in the case of registered designs in like manner as they apply in the case of patents, with the substitution of references to the copyright in a design for reference to a patent, and of references to the proprietor of a design fo references to the patentee, and of references to the design for references to the invention.