Technology and Design: Product Design (Acts)
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- Created on: 23-05-18 15:25
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- Social Responsibility of Product Design and Market Influences
- Trade Descriptions Act (1968)
- The trader must be accurate when describing where a product has been made, when it was made, what it was made of and who made it.
- Customer Safety Act (1978)
- Legal safety standards to minimise the risk to the customer from potentially harmful or dangerous products
- Sales of Goods Act (1979)
- Covers a range of customer rights with an emphasis on the quality of products that may be sold to an individual, the customer has the right to return an product which does not meet the standard expressed in the description
- Copyrights, trademarks and patents
- Patents protect inventions, to qualify for a patent the invention must be novel.
- A copyright protects the expression of a persons ideas
- A trade mark protects something that is used to identify where a product or service comes from
- Trade Descriptions Act (1968)
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