Patent and Designs Act 1911
The Patents and Designs Act, 1911 is an Act of the Bangladesh National Assembly. This Act extends to the whole of Bangladesh and came into force from the 1 January 1912. It mainly provides some definitions relating to this Act, i.e. definitions of ‘Attorney General’, ‘Copyright’, ‘Design’, ‘Patent’, ‘Manufacture’ etc. The act had some definitions substituted in the Bangladesh Laws (Revision and Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973) and it was more recently amended in the Patents and Designs (Amendment) Act, 2003 (Act No. XV of 2003).
Format
In this Act, we find:
- (a) Preamble,
- (b) 3 parts,
- (c) 81 Sections &
- (d) 1 Schedule.
For a better understanding of this Act, it has been divided into 3 main parts:
- Part I: Patents (Ss. 3 to 42),
- Part II: Designs (Ss. 43 to 54),
- Part III: General (Ss. 55 to 81).
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