Industrial Design Act

Marginal note:Renewal of rights

• 29.1 (1) Section 10, as it read immediately before the day on which this section came into force, applies in respect of an exclusive right acquired before that day.

• Marginal note:Non-application of defence provision

  (2) Subsection 17(1) does not apply in respect of a design registered on the basis of an application filed before this section comes into force if, after the registration, the name of the proprietor of the design appears on the article to which the design applies by being marked, if the manufacture is a woven fabric, on one end of it, together with the letters "Rd." or "Enr." or both "Rd." and "Enr.", and, if the manufacture is of any other substance, with the letters "Rd." or "Enr." or both "Rd." and "Enr." and the year of registration at the edge of it or on any other convenient part.

• Marginal note:Method of marking

  (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the mark may be put on the manufacture by marking it on the material itself or by attaching to it a label with the proper marks on it.