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Section 50, The Patents and Industrial Design Act, 2012
Status not yet checkedThe Patents and Industrial Design Act, 2012, Sierra Leone
(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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