The Design acts does not permit the following elements to be registered

• The printed documents & files like books, calendars, certificates, forms-and other documents, dressmaking patterns, greeting
• cards, leaflets, medals and postcard, plan cards, stamps.
• Cartoons, labels, tokens, cards.
• It does not include any process, principle or mode of construction of an article.
• Any kind of mechanical fabrication.
• Architectural constructions like buildings and structures.
• Variations commonly used in the trade.
• Parts of articles not manufactured and sold separately
• Workshop alterations of components of an Assembly.
• Similar article with small change in size of article.
• It cannot include flags, emblems or signs of any country.
• It also excludes any kind of layout designs of integrated circuits.