Designs
The Designs Act, 2000 regulates registration of Designs in India. If you have come up with a new product design (industrial) in shape, configuration, pattern, color, that can be registered under this Act, and you can have exclusive legal rights for your intellectual work and you can stop others from copying the same. According to the Act, a work can be registered, only if it is new or original, it has not been disclosed to the public anywhere in India or in any other country by publication in tangible form or by use in any other way prior to the filing date or where applicable, the priority date of the application for registration, it is significantly distinguishable from known designs or combination of known designs, it does not comprise or contain scandalous or obscene matter.