History Of IPR : Design

India’s Design Act, 2000 was enacted to consolidate and amend the law relaing o protection of  design and to comply with the articles 25 and 26 of TRIPS agreement. The new act (earlier Patent and Design Act, 1911 was repealed by this act) now defines “design” to mean only the features of  shape, configuration, pattern. ornament, or composition of lines or colours applied to any article whether in two or three dimensional, or in both forms, by any industrial process or means, whether manual or mechanical or chemical, separate or combimed, which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely bt the eye; but does not include any mode or principle of construction.