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A design matching the VinFast Rasad \u2014 the maxi-scooter the Vietnamese company revealed at the end of January \u2014 has surfaced on India’s Register of Designs. VinFast hasn’t announced anything about bringing it to India. It doesn’t have to. Under the Designs Act<\/a>, registering a design is a cheap, quiet, non-committal act, and companies do it constantly for products that never arrive.<\/p>\n So before anyone starts building a launch calendar: what got filed is a picture. Section 2(d) of that Act protects shape, configuration, pattern and ornament \u2014 the stuff judged by the eye. Not the motor. Not the battery. Not the frame. The registration runs ten years from the date of registration, extendable once by five, and confers the exclusive right to apply that appearance to an article in the class it’s registered under. It is a fence around a silhouette, nothing more.<\/p>\n What makes this particular fence worth a second look isn’t the drawing. It’s what VinFast has already said, on its own website, about the machine inside it.<\/p>\nThe center-motor detail nobody’s chewing on<\/h3>\n