Industrial Designs Act, 2001

Power of Controller to correct errors.

37.—(1) The Controller may, in accordance with this section, correct an error in an application for the registration or in the representation of a design, or any error in the Register.

(2) A correction may be made under this section upon a request in writing made by any person interested and accompanied by the prescribed fee, or on the initiative of the Controller.

(3) Where the Controller is requested under this section to correct an error in the Register, he or she shall determine the matter in the prescribed manner.

(4) Where the Controller proposes to make a correction under this section on his or her initiative, he or she shall give notice of the proposal to the registered proprietor or the applicant for registration of the design, as the case may be, and to any other person who appears to him or her to be concerned, and shall give them an opportunity to be heard before making the correction.

(5) A correction of the Register under this section shall have the effect that the error in question shall be deemed never to have been made.