27 Designs Act can be unfair or unlawful. If that would be the main question the answer would be clear. Anyone may ordinary make anything produced by another which is in the public domain: One may freely and exactly copy it without his leave and without payment of compensation. So, In Steers v Rogers 10 RPC 245 (H.L.), where LORD HERSCHELL LC, having said (at p 251) that a patent does not confer upon the patentee a right to manufacture according to his invention, continued: "That is a right which he would equally effectually have if there were no Let¬ ters Patent at all - only in that case all the world would equally have the right. What the Letters Patent con¬ fer is the right to exclude others from manufacturing in a particular way. and from using a particular invention." See.....

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