Laying down a definitive framework for distinguishing between works protected beneath the Copyright Act, 1957, and designs eligible for protection beneath the Designs Act, 2000, the 56-page judgement penned by Justice Surya Kant addressed the often-contested overlap between “inventive works” and “designs”, notably contained in the context of Half 15(2) of the Copyright Act, which governs the cessation of copyright when a design is commercially exploited with out registration.
