Section 8
of Industrial Designs Order, 1999
Section 8
(l)
Subject to this section, the designer of an industrial design is for the purposes of this Order the original owner of that industrial design.
(2)
Where an industrial design is made by a person in the course of his employment or apprenticeship, his employer is the original owner of that industrial design, subject to any agreement to the contrary.
(3)
Where a person commissions the making of an industrial design and the industrial design is made in carrying out that commission, the person who commissioned the work is the original owner of the industrial design, subject to any agreement to the contrary.
(4)
Where an industrial design, or the right to apply an industrial design to any article, becomes vested, whether by assignment or transmission, in any person other than the original owner, either alone or jointly with the original owner, that other person or, as the case may be, the original owner and that other person, shall be treated for the purposes of this Order as the owner of the industrial design or as the owner of the industrial design in relation to that article.
(5)
In the case of an industrial design generated by computer in circumstances such that there is no human designer, the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the industrial design are made shall be deemed to be the designer.