The main aim of Design Act 2000 is to protect designs which serve the purpose of visual appeal. A Design to be registrable must be some shape, configuration, pattern, ornament or composition of lines or colours applied to any article whether in two dimensional or
three dimensional or in both forms, by any industrial process or means, but does not include any mode or principle of construction or anything, which is in substance a mere mechanical device, and does not include any trade mark or property mark or any artistic work.
Design must be capable of being applied to an article in such a way that the article to which it is applied will appeal to, and judged solely by the eye.