One of the objectives of the Design Rules, 2001 is to enable protection of newly created designs applying to an article manufactured by a particular industrial process? Elucidate.

A design registration protects the aesthetic aspect of a product. Registration confers protection on the features of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament or composition of lines or colours as applied to an article of manufacture. Since manufacturing has to be achieved through one or more industrial process the object of rules provides for the particular objective. Functional or technical features of articles are not protected under the Design Act, 2000. An 'article' includes, among other things, any substance - artificial or partly artificial and partly natural - and any part of an article which is capable of being manufactured and sold independently.