33. Industrial design

Where the essential elements of an industrial design, are the subject of an application for registration or have been derived from an industrial design, for which the right to protection belongs to another person, such other person may apply in writing to the Director-General to assign the said application or registration to him.

The application for assignment shall be forwarded with the prescribed fee and evidence to substantiate the claim of the applicant. Where the registration has already been effected, the application under subsection (1) shall be made within one year from the date of the publication of the registration under section 44.

The Director-General shall forthwith send a copy of such application for assignment to the applicant for registration or the registered owner of the industrial design, who shall within a period of three months from the date of such notice forward to the Director-General a counter statement in the prescribed manner together with the prescribed fee and evidence to substantiate his claim.

If the applicant or the registered owner forwards a counter statement as referred to in subsection (3), the

Where, after an application for the registration of an industrial design has been filed, the person to whom the right to protection belongs gives his consent to the filling of the said application, such consent shall, for all purposes, be deemed to have been effective from the date of filling of such application.