(2) Transfer of applications and registrations shall be in writing and signed
by the contracting parties.
(3) Assignment for transfer of registered industrial designs by inheritance
shall be recorded in the Industrial Designs Office after payment of the fees
prescribed by the rules, and assignment and transfer of applications shall
be registered previously after payment of the fees. After registration of an
industrial design it shall be registered in the name of the assignee or
beneficiary.
(4) The assignment or transfer shall not be effective against third parties
unless recorded in the register.
28. In the absence of any agreement to the contrary between the
contracting parties, any or the owners participating in a registered
industrial design may assign his share or benefit in the industrial design
and exercise the rights conferred by section 25, provided that there shall
be no license to third parties to utilize the industrial design without their
unanimous consent.
Part Nine: Licenses
29. (1) The owner of an industrial design may grant by contract or by
undertaking to another person a license to utilize an industrial design.
(2) The license shall be in writing and signed by the contracting parties.
(3) The license or an appropriate summary thereof shall be registered in
the Industrial Designs Office after payment of the fees stipulated by the
rules. The license shall not be effective against third parties unless
registered.
(4) Registration of a license shall be cancelled on the application of the
registered owner of the industrial design after proving the expiry of the
license.
30. (1) The conditions set out in a license or connected thereto shall be
void if they impose on the license in the industrial or commercial field
restrictions not derived from the rights granted by registration of the
industrial design or not necessary for the protection of those rights.
(2) The following special cases are not regarded as restrictions:
(a) restrictions concerning the extent of the use of an industrial design or
its scope or the term or method or amount of production for which an
industrial design may be used;