Industrial Designs Act 1996 · Updated to 1 Jan 2013 · Part VI · Infringement
32. Infringement of registered industrial design
Feedback & supportSubject to the provisions of this Act, the owner of a registered industrial design shall have the exclusive right to make or import for sale or hire, or for use for the purposes of any trade or business, or to sell, hire or to offer or expose for sale or hire, any article to which the registered industrial design has been applied.
owner
“owner” means the person who is registered as the owner of the registered industrial design or, if there are two or more such persons, each of those persons;
Subject to section 30, a person infringes the rights conferred by the registration of an industrial design if he, without the licence or consent of the owner of the industrial design, does any of the following things while the registration is still in force:
industrial design
“industrial design” means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process or means, being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged by the eye, but does not include— (a) a method or principle of construction; or (b) features of shape or configuration of an article which — (i) are dictated solely by the function which the article has to perform; or (ii) are dependent upon the appearance of another article Industrial Designs 9 of which the article is intended by the author of the design to form an integral part;
applies the industrial design or any fraudulent or obvious imitation of it to any article in respect of which the industrial design is registered;
imports into Malaysia for sale, or for use for the purposes of any trade or business, any article to which the industrial design or any fraudulent or obvious imitation of it has been applied outside Malaysia without the licence or consent of the owner; or
sells, or offers or keeps for sale, or hires, or offers or keeps for hire, any of the articles described in paragraphs (a) and
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Notwithstanding subsection (1), the right of the owner of a registered industrial design shall not extend to acts in respect of an article to which the registered industrial design is applied by or with the consent of the owner after the article has been lawfully imported into or sold in Malaysia.
registered industrial design
“registered industrial design” means an industrial design registered under this Act;
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