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The United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Act (Cap. 218), Uganda

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Details Details Year of Version 1937 Dates Adopted: June 15, 1937 Type of Text Main IP Laws Subject Matter Industrial Designs Subject Matter (secondary) Enforcement of IP and Related Laws, IP Regulatory Body, Patents (Inventions), Copyright and Related Rights (Neighboring Rights) Notes The United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Act of 1937, as amended in 1962 provides that UK design registration automatically extends to Uganda. There is no local registration requirement, and there is no provision in Uganda for independent design registration. Uganda law does not provide for any design registration mechanism, or any protection for unregistered designs.

Source: Study Report on Industrial Property Law (Patents, Industrial Designs Technovations and Utility Models) of the Uganda Law Reform Commission.

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 UG007: Designs (Protection) Act, Chapter 218 Designs (Protection—Chapter 218), Act, 15/06/1937

CHAPTER 218

THE UNITED KINGDOM DESIGNS (PROTECTION) ACT.

Arrangement of Sections.

Section 1. Rights in Uganda of proprietor of design registered in United

Kingdom. 2. Innocent infringer not liable for damages. 3. Grounds upon which court may declare that rights have not been

acquired in Uganda.

CHAPTER 218

THE UNITED KINGDOM DESIGNS (PROTECTION) ACT.

Commencement: 15 June, 1937.

An Act to provide for the protection in Uganda of designs registered in the United Kingdom.

1. Rights in Uganda of proprietor of design registered in United Kingdom.

Subject to this Act, the registered proprietor of any design registered in the United Kingdom under the Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 to 1932, or any Act of the United Kingdom amending or substituted for those Acts shall enjoy in Uganda the like privileges and rights as though the certificate of registration in the United Kingdom had been issued with an extension to Uganda.

2. Innocent infringer not liable for damages.

(1) The registered proprietor of a design shall not be entitled to recover any damages in respect of any infringement of copyright in a design from any defendant who proves that, at the date of the infringement, he or she was not aware and had no reasonable means of making himself or herself aware of the existence of the registration of the design.

(2) Nothing in this section shall affect any proceedings for an injunction.

3. Grounds upon which court may declare that rights have not been acquired in Uganda.

(1) The court shall have power, upon the application of any person who alleges that his or her interests have been prejudicially affected, to declare, upon any of the grounds upon which the United Kingdom registration might be cancelled under the law for the time being in force in the United Kingdom, that exclusive privileges and rights in a design have not been acquired in Uganda under this Act.

(2) Such grounds shall be deemed to include the publication of the

design in Uganda prior to the date of registration of the design in the United Kingdom.

History: Cap. 84.

Cross Reference

Patent and Designs Acts of the United Kingdom, 1907 to 1932.

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