Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person mentioned in any of the following paragraphs is entitled to be entered on the Register as the registered owner of a design that has not yet been registered:
(a) the person who created the design (the designer );
(b) if the designer created the design in the course of employment, or under a contract, with another person--the other person, unless the designer and the other person have agreed to the contrary;
(c) a person who derives title to the design from a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b), or by devolution by will or by operation of law;
(d) a person who would, on registration of the design, be entitled to have the exclusive rights in the design assigned to the person;
(e) the legal personal representative of a deceased person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d).
(2) Despite subsection (1), a person is not entitled to be entered on the Register as the registered owner of a design that has not yet been registered if:
(a) the person has assigned all of the person's rights in the design to another person; or
(b) the person's rights in the design have devolved on another person by operation of law.
(3) To avoid doubt:
(a) more than one person may be entitled to be entered on the Register as the registered owner of a design; and
(b) unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to the registered owner of a registered design in this Act is a reference to each of the registered owners of the design.
(4) No person other than a person mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) is entitled to be entered on the Register as the registered owner of a design that has not yet been registered.