Point in time view as at 31/10/2003.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 254.
(1)A person who has a licence in respect of a design by virtue of section 237 or 238 (licences of right) shall not, without the consent of the design right owner—
(a)apply to goods which he is marketing, or proposes to market, in reliance on that licence a trade description indicating that he is the licensee of the design right owner, or
(b)use any such trade description in an advertisement in relation to such goods.
(2)A contravention of subsection (1) is actionable by the design right owner.
(3)In this section “trade description”, the reference to applying a trade description to goods and “advertisement” have the same meaning as in the M1Trade Descriptions Act 1968.
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