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Introduction : 3D printing is changing the legal meaning of manufacture in a way that fashion law cannot treat as a technological detail. A garment can now be designed digitally, produced layer by layer, adjusted to an individual body and sold as a single commissioned piece or a small run. The central question under India’s Designs Act, 2000 is therefore whether such production is sufficiently industrial for design protection. The first difficulty is terminological. The Desig

Introduction : A decade back, turning a rough sketch into a set of designs that looked real usually took weeks. One person would draw and then the group would debate the options. After that, a maker or a renderer would turn the chosen idea into a form a client could actually review and now the clock has changed and the Generative tools can cut that wait fast as With one text prompt, an AI aided CAD add on, a parametric system, or an image generator may spit out many possible

Introduction : If you open up any banking app, a designer will have made numerous visual decisions along the way for example, where the icons are placed, what the transition effects look like, and how the colour scheme directs the viewer's attention. Just as carefully as one would shape the curve of a car's dashboard, these design choices were made, yet Indian law dealt with them in a different way. Section 2(d) of the Designs Act, 2000 only covered physical "articles", which

Introduction: The Evolution of User Interfaces from Functional Code to Aesthetic Asset Historically, the legal and technological views of User Interfaces (UIs) were created by a purely functional paradigm. In the early days of computing, the interface was simply a utilitarian medium; several command-line prompts were used to connect the human mind to the machine. However, the fundamental shift towards Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) has changed how we think about UIs. Today,