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Industrial Designs Act, 2001

Joint ownership of designs.

18.—(1) In this Act, “design of joint authorship” means a design produced by two or more authors in which the contribution of each author is not distinct from that of the other author or authors.

(2) References in this Act to the author of a design shall, unless otherwise provided, be construed in relation to a design of joint authorship as references to all the authors of the design.

(3) Where a right conferred by this Act (or any aspect of such right) is owned by more than one person jointly, references in this Act to registered proprietor are to all the owners, and any requirement of the licence of the registered proprietor requires the licence of all the owners.