28.
Rectification of register.
The registrar may order the register to be rectified by the making, amendment
or deletion of any entry therein, and such order may be made either on a
request in the prescribed manner or without such a request: Provided that
where the registrar intends to make an order otherwise than upon a request,
he shall give notice of his intention to do so to the applicant for the registration
of a design or to the registered proprietor, as the case may be, and to any
other person who appears to him to be concerned, and shall give such
applicant, registered proprietor or other person an opportunity of being heard
before making the order.
29.
Assignment and devolution by operation of law.
(1)
The rights vested in an applicant for the registration of a design or a
registered proprietor shall be capable of assignment and of devolution
by operation of law.
(2)
Any condition in a contract of employment which—
(a) requires an employee to assign to his employer a design made by
him otherwise than within the course of his employment; or
(b)
restricts the right of an employee in a design made by him
more than one year after the termination of the contract of
employment,
shall be null and void.
30.
Assignment of rights in and attachment or hypothecation of registered
designs.
(1)
(a)
An applicant for the registration of a design or a registered
proprietor may assign his rights in an application or design to
any other person, and unless such assignment is in writing it
shall not be valid.
(b)
Upon application in the prescribed manner and on payment of
the prescribed fee to the registrar, such assignment shall be
recorded in the register.
(c)
Unless such assignment is so recorded it shall not be valid,
except as between the parties thereto.
(2)
A registered design or an application for the registration of a design
may be attached by recording the warrant of execution or attachment
order concerned in the register in the prescribed manner.
(3)
Upon the discharge of any attachment, the person who caused such
warrant or order to be entered into the register shall cause that entry
to be deleted: Provided that any other interested person may apply to
the registrar to cause such entry to be deleted.