In India, different industrial designs are registered and safeguarded via the design registration process. The Designs Act of 2000 and the associated Designs Rules of 2001 govern the full process of design registration. The term “design” refers to the distinctive features of a shape, figure, layout, ornamentation, composition of lines or colours, or combination thereof, added to a product by any manufacturing process or method, whether it be 2 dimensional, 3 dimensional, or both. The design creation process can be manual, mechanical, mechanised, chemical, separate, or all-encompassing, but it must appeal to the eye in order for the finished product to be recognised. But there are no modes, standards, constructions, or other things here that are merely mechanical in nature. A registered brand, as defined in Section 2(v) of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958, a property mark, or an artistic work, as defined in Section 2(c) of the Copyright Act, 1957, is also excluded from this definition. The goal of registering a design under the Designs Act is to protect a newly produced, innovative design that will be applied to a particular object during the manufacturing process using an industrial method or mode. Sometimes, as with a phone or a pair of goggles, we observe that consumers’ purchasing decisions about certain consumable items are influenced not just by the quality of the products themselves but also by the way they look. The main goal of acquiring a registration for a design is to ensure that the specific artisan, inventor, craftsman, engineer, or designer of that design with a unique appearance is not robbed and defrauded of his legitimate reward by some copycats who would tend to exploit his design to their items.
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