🎨 The Devastating Design Oversight

🌟 Imagine spending months perfecting your product design, getting it registered, only to lose your right to damages because you forgot one tiny marking! This episode reveals how a small oversight can destroy your legal protection.

💡 What You'll Discover:

• 🔍 Why Section 15(1)(b) of India's Designs Act 2000 makes marking mandatory - not optional
• ⚖️ The shocking truth: even obvious copying won't get you damages without proper marking
• 🎯 Two narrow escape routes that might save your case (but they're harder than you think)

🚀 Key Legal Requirements:

• 💎 'Registered' or 'RD' marking - Must appear on every single product before sale
• ⭐ Registration number - Required alongside the marking for full protection
• 🛡️ Textile exemptions - Special rules for printed fabrics (but not handkerchiefs!)

🔧 Practical Rescue Strategies:

• 📋 Prove you took 'reasonable steps' - document your marking attempts
• 📨 Show the infringer had actual knowledge - through legal notices or other communication
• ⚠️ Remember: burden of proof falls entirely on you, the design owner

🎙️ This episode could save your business thousands by teaching you the simple marking rule that most entrepreneurs ignore - until it's too late!