The Indian Patent Office (IPO) issued a circular on August 18, 2015, providing a clarification on the subsisting practice of registration of a design being applicable to only the article covered by the application in question. As the readers might be aware, currently the Design applications in India are required to be categorized in separate classes and sub-classes based upon the function of the article. If an article was registered under a specific class and sub-class, the rights of the![]()
