Designs Act, 1911
54. Application of certain provisions of the
Act as to patents to designs
The provisions of the Patents Act 1970 with
regard to certificates of the validity of a patent and to the remedy in case of
groundless threats of legal proceedings by a patentee shall apply in the case
of registered designs in like manner as they apply in the case of patents with
the substitution of references to the copyright in a design for references to a
patent and of reference to the proprietor or a design for reference to the
patentee and of references to the designs for references to the invention.