{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/designs-and-international-trade-marks-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-2/paragraph-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/designs-and-international-trade-marks-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-2/paragraph-29.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/638",
  "legislation_title": "The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/designs-and-international-trade-marks-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/29",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Article 81: The “design court” – jurisdiction over infringement and validity",
  "text": "For Article 81, substitute—\n“Article 81\nThe “design court” – Jurisdiction over infringement and validity\n1 In this Regulation, “design court” means—\n(a) in England and Wales, the High Court;\n(b) in Scotland, the sheriff court and the Court of Session; and\n(c) in Northern Ireland, the county court and the High Court.\n2 The design court has exclusive jurisdiction—\n(a) for infringement actions and actions in respect of threatened infringement of continuing unregistered Community designs;\n(b) for actions for declaration of non-infringement of continuing unregistered Community designs;\n(c) for actions for a declaration of invalidity of a continuing unregistered Community design;\n(d) for counterclaims for a declaration of invalidity of a continuing ... unregistered Community design raised in connection with actions under (a).”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 29 substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 19(b)(i)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 29 inserted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 19(b)(i)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 29 omitted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by virtue of The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 19(b)(ii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 29 inserted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 19(b)(ii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 29 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/638/schedule/2/paragraph/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:43:47.966462+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}