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fees
Sec. 215. (a) There shall be paid to the Administrator the following fees:
(1) On filing each application for registration or for renewal of registration of a design, $15.
(2) For each additional related article included in one application, $10.
(3) For recording assignment, $3 for the first six pages, and for each additional two pages or less, $1.
(4) For a certificate of correction of an error not the fault of the Office, $10.
(5) For certification of copies or records, $1.
(6) On filing each application for cancellation of a registration, $15.
(b) The Administrator may establish charges for materials or services furnished by the Office, not specified above, reasonably related to the cost thereof.
regulations
Sec. 216. The Administrator may establish regulations not inconsistent with law for the administration of this title.
copies of records
Sec. 217. Upon payment of the prescribed fee, any person may obtain a certified copy of any official record of the Office of the Administrator, which copy shall be admissible in evidence with the same effect as the original.
correction of errors in certificates
Sec. 218. The Administrator may correct any error in a registration incurred through the fault of the Office, or, upon payment of the required fee, any error of a clerical or typographical nature not the fault of the Office occurring in good faith, by a certificate of correction under seal. Such registration, together with the certificate, shall thereafter have the same effect as if the same had been originally issued in such corrected form.
ownership and transfer
Sec. 219. (a) The property right in a design subject to protection under this title shall vest in the author, the legal representatives of a deceased author or of one under legal incapacity, the employer for whom the author created the design in the case of a design made within the regular scope of the author’s employment, or a person to whom the rights of the author or of such employer have been transferred. The person or persons in whom the property right is vested shall be considered the proprietor of the design.
(b) The property right in a registered design, or a design for which an application for registration has been or may be filed, may be assigned, granted, conveyed, or mortgaged by an instrument in writing, signed by the proprietor, or may be bequeathed by will.
(c) An acknowledgement as provided in section 211 shall be prima facie evidence of the execution of an assignment, grant, conveyance, or mortgage.
(d) An assignment, grant, conveyance, or mortgage shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for a valuable consideration, without notice, unless it is recorded in the Office of the Administrator within three months from its date of execution or prior to the date of such subsequent purchase or mortgage.
remedy for infringement
Sec. 220. (a) The proprietor of a design shall have remedy for infringement by civil action instituted after issuance of a certificate of registration of the design.
(b) The proprietor of a design may have judicial review of a final refusal of the Administrator to register the design, by a civil action brought as for infringement if commenced within the time specified in section 212(d), and shall have remedy for infringement by the same action if the court adjudges the design subject to protection under this title: Provided, That (1) he has previously du1y filed and duly prosecuted to such final refusal an application in proper form for registration of the designs, and (2) he causes a copy of the complaint in action to be delivered to the Administrator within ten days after the commencement of the
