Section 33
of Industrial Designs Order, 1999
Section 33
(1)
Subject to any agreement to the contrary, where there is more than one registered owner of an industrial design, each of them shall be entitled to an undivided share in the industrial design.
(2)
Subject to this section and to any agreement to the contrary, where there is more than one registered owner of an industrial design, each of them shall be entitled, by himself or his agent, to do in respect of the industrial design, for his own benefit and without the consent of or the need to account to any other registered owner, any act which would apart from this subsection and section 36 constitute an infringement of that industrial design; and any such act shall be deemed not to constitute an infringement of that industrial design.
(3)
Subject to section 41 and to any agreement to the contrary, where there is more than one registered owner of an industrial design, no registered owner shall, without the consent of each of the others, grant a licence under the industrial design or assign or mortgage a share in it.
(4)
Nothing in subsections (1) or (2) affects the mutual rights or obligations of trustees or of the personal representatives of a deceased person, or their rights or obligations as such.
Incorporating amendments until S 3/2020
(Clean version) Norhasnani/fiqah/Karimah_as of 8th June 2020
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BLUV as at 13th February 2020
Transactions affecting rights in industrial designs.