Chapter:	522	Title:	REGISTERED DESIGNS ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	33	Heading:	Co-ownership of registered designs	Version Date:	30/06/1997

(1) Subject to any agreement to the contrary, where there is more than one registered owner of a registered design, each of them shall be entitled to an equal undivided share in the design.
(2) Subject to this section and to any agreement to the contrary, where there is more than one registered owner of a registered design, each of them shall be entitled, by himself or his agent, to do in respect of the design concerned, for his own benefit and without the consent of or the need to account to any other registered owner, any act which would apart from this subsection and section 37 constitute an infringement of the design concerned; and any such act shall be deemed not to constitute an infringement of the design concerned.
(3) Subject to section 41 and to any agreement to the contrary, where there is more than one registered owner of a registered design, no registered owner shall, without the consent of each of the others, grant a licence under the design or assign or mortgage a share in it.
(4) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) shall affect the mutual rights or obligations of trustees or of the personal representatives of a deceased person, or their rights or obligations as such.