This book attempts to discuss and analyse, in depth, all issues on designs and is a commentary on the 2000 Act. It incorporates all references to the 1911 Act to present a link between the past and upcoming case law under 2000 Act. All the available information of designs including the 1930 amendment to the then design portion of patents Act of 1911 has ben put in footnotes to keep a record. The overlap of designs with copyright law, shape trade marks and patents makes the designs law quite curious in certain respects, which is discussed in chapter 3.
The work will be useful to the designers, legal managers, law practitioners, law teachers, students of law and all those who are concerned with the Designs Law. The effort to assert the IPR of designs and opposing effort to free ride the new designs is a potential source of disputes. The eligible designs need protection from being used without paying royalty, after they are disclosed publicly upon being registered as design.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ashwani Kumar
Ashwani Kumar, a Congress Party member of Rajya Sabha from Punjab, and Chairman, AICC Vichar Vibhag, is a practicing Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court and was appointed Additional Solicitor General of India in 1990 at the age of 37. He has appeared before the Court in landmark cases which include the Bhopal Gas case, the Gujarat Presidential Reference case and the recently decided Electoral Reforms case. At 33, he first represented India as a non-official member of the Indian Delegation to the UN General Assembly in1986 and later again in 1996. Ashwani Kumar ahs also served as a Spokesperson of the Congress Party and as member of the Congress Party's Economic Policy Introspection Group. He has travelled extensively and was as Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. He has also lectured at the University of Nice. He is currently a member of the Standing Committee of Parliament on Commerce and has also served as a member of the Standing Committee of Parliament on Energy. Ashwani Kumar is the son of Late Prabodh Chandra, a veteran freedom fighter, distinguished parliamentarian and Congress leader from Punjab.
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