Right to industrial design

(1) The right to registration of an industrial design shall belong to the creator. (2) Where two or more persons have jointly created an industrial design, the right to registration of the industrial design shall belong to them jointly. (3) Where two or more persons have created the same industrial design independently of each other, the person whose application has the earliest filing date or, if priority is claimed, the earliest validly claimed priority date, shall have the right to the industrial design, as long as the said application is not withdrawn, abandoned or refused. (4) The right to an industrial design may be assigned or transferred by succession. (5) Where an industrial design is created in execution of a contract of employment, the right to the industrial design shall belong, in the absence of contractual provisions to the contrary, to the employer. (6) The creator shall be named as such in the registration of the industrial design unless, in a special written declaration signed by him and addressed to the Registrar, he indicates that he wishes not to be so named. (7) Any promise or undertaking by the creator made to any person to the effect that he will make a declaration referred to in subsection (6) of this section, shall be without legal effect. 8