{{Short description|Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom}} {{Use British English|date=August 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox UK legislation |short_title=Registered Designs Act 1949{{efn|Section 49(1).}} |type=Act |parliament=Parliament of the United Kingdom |long_title=An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to registered designs. |year= 1949 |citation=12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 88 |territorial_extent=United Kingdom |royal_assent=16 December 1949 |commencement=1 January 1950{{efn|Section 49(2).}} |repeal_date= |amends=See {{Section link||Repealed enactments}} |replaces=See {{Section link||Repealed enactments}} |amendments={{ubli|Copyright Act 1956|Defence Contracts Act 1958|Northern Ireland Act 1962|Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1965|Atomic Energy Authority (Weapons Group) Act 1973|British Telecommunications Act 1981|Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986|Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986|Semiconductor Products (Protection of Topography) Regulations 1987|Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988|Registered Designs Regulations 2001|Enterprise Act 2002|Enterprise Act 2002 (Protection of Legitimate Interests) Order 2003|Constitutional Reform Act 2005|Community Design Regulations 2005|Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006|Registered Designs Act 1949 and Patents Act 1977 (Electronic Communications) Order 2006|Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2006|Intellectual Property Act 2014|Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Amendment) Regulations 2014|Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014|Consumer Rights Act 2015|Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017|Digital Economy Act 2017|Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019|Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020|Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023}} |related_legislation={{ubli|Patents Act 1949}} |repealing_legislation= |status=Amended |original_text=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/88/contents/enacted |revised_text=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/88/contents |use_new_UK-LEG=yes |}}
The '''Registered Designs Act 1949''' (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 88) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning design rights. The purpose of the act was to consolidate certain enactments relating to registering designs.<ref>[https://wipolex-res.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/gb/gb200en.pdf CONSOLIDATED VERSION Registered Designs Act 1949 (c.88) ]</ref> "The Act prescribes that where an application for the registration of a design has been abandoned or refused, information filed in pursuance of the registration shall not be open to public inspection".<ref>[https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/499791 WIPO: United Kingdom GB200]</ref>
Part IV of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 contains a certain number of amendments to the Registered Designs Act 1949.
== Provisions == === Repealed enactments === Section 48 of the act repealed 11 enactments, listed in the second schedule to the act.<ref>{{Cite legislation UK|act=Registered Designs Act 1949|type=act|year=Geo6/12-13-14|chapter=88}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" ! Citation ! Short title ! Extent of repeal |- | 7 Edw. 7. c. 29 | Patents and Designs Act 1907 | The whole act, except section forty-seven, subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section sixty-two, sections sixty-three and sixty-four, and except sections eighty-two, ninety-one and ninety-one A in their application to trade marks and except section eighty-eight in its application to any Order in Council made under section ninety-one A. |- | 9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 80 | Patents and Designs Act 1919 | The whole act. |- | 18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 3 | Patents and Designs (Convention) Act 1928 | The whole act, except section four. |- | 22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. 32 | Patents and Designs Act 1932 | The whole act, except so much of the Schedule as amends section ninety-one of the Patents and Designs Act 1907. |- | 1 & 2 Geo. 6. c. 29 | Patents, etc. (International Conventions) Act 1938 | The whole act, except sections eight, nine and ten, subsection (6) of section twelve and so much of the Schedule as amends section ninety-one of the Patents and Designs Act 1907. |- | 2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 32 | Patents and Designs (Limits of Time) Act 1939 | The whole act, except section four. |- | 5 & 6 Geo. 6. c. 6 | Patents and Designs Act 1942 | The whole act. |- | 9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 26 | Emergency Laws (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946 | Section seven. |- | 9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 44 | Patents and Designs Act 1946 | Sections one, two, three and five, subsection (3) of section six, subsection (2) of section seven and subsection (4) of section eight. |- | 11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 10 | Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1947 | In section five, paragraph (b) of subsection (2) and subsection (3). |- | 12 & 13 Geo. 6. c. 62 | Patents and Designs Act 1949 | The whole act, except section forty-nine and so much of the First Schedule as amends sections eighty-two, eighty-eight and ninety-one A of the Patents and Designs Act 1907. |}
== Registrable designs and proceedings for registration == A design which complies with the conditions mentioned in article 1 of CDR.
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== External links== * [https://www.gov.uk/design-right Design right] at Gov.uk * [https://www.primaryopinion.com/articles/falsely-representing-design-being-registered-what-does-one-do "Falsely representing a design as being registered: what does one do?" - Offences relating to Section 35 of the Registered Designs Act, Prof Jeremy Phillips, November 2014] * [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/88/contents Contents of the act as amended] at Gov.uk
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