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Section 50, The Patents and Industrial Design Act, 2012

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(1) Section 7 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this Part (2) Any creator of an industrial design or his successors in title shall have the exclusive right to exploit the design, to sell or cause to be sold for commercial or industrial purposes the goods in which the design is incorporated, subject to the conditions of this Act and without prejudice to the rights conferred by any other enactment. (3) The following shall not be registered as industrial designs:– (a) designs which serve solely to obtain a technical result and to the extent that it leaves no freedom as regards arbitrary features of appearance; (b) designs that consists solely in a change in the colour of designs already known; (c) works of sculpture, architecture, painting, engraving, animating, embroidery and photography and any other inventions of purely artistic nature; or (e) designs contrary to public order or morality.

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