Part 1 Design Regulation and continuing unregistered Community designs

1. 1Paragraph 1
2. 2Article 1: continuing unregistered Community design
3. 3Article 1: continuing unregistered Community design
4. 4Article 2: Office
5. 5Article 3: definitions
6. 6Article 4: requirements for protection
7. 7Article 5: novelty
8. 8Article 6: individual character
9. 9Article 7: disclosure
10. 10Articles 8 to 10: technical function, interconnections, public policy, morality and protection
11. 11Article 11: commencement and term of protection
12. 12Articles 12 and 13: registered Community design: commencement, term of protection and renewal
13. 13Article 14: right to the Community design
14. 14Article 15: claims relating to the entitlement to a Community design
15. 15Articles 16 to 18: effects of a judgment on entitlement, presumptions, right to be cited
16. 16Article 19: rights conferred by the Community design
17. 17Article 20: limitation of the rights conferred by a Community design
18. 18Article 21: exhaustion of rights
19. 19Articles 22 and 23: prior use and government use
20. 20Article 24: declaration of invalidity
21. 21Article 25: grounds for invalidity
22. 22Article 26: consequences of invalidity
23. 23Article 27: Community design rights as national design rights
24. 24Articles 28 to 31: transfer, rights in rem, levy and insolvency
25. 25Article 32: licensing
26. 26Articles 33 to 78: general provisions
27. 27Article 79: Application of the Convention on jurisdiction and enforcement
28. 28Article 80: Community design courts
29. 29Article 81: The “design court” – jurisdiction over infringement and validity
30. 30Articles 82 and 83
31. 31Article 84: action or counterclaim for a declaration of invalidity of a Community design
32. 32Article 85: presumption of validity – defence as to the merits
33. 33Article 86: judgments of invalidity
34. 34Articles 87 and 88: sanctions in actions for infringement
35. 35Article 89: sanctions in actions for infringement
36. 36Article 90: provisional measures, including protective measures
37. 37Articles 91 and 92: specific rules on related actions and further appeals
38. 38Article 93: supplementary provisions on the jurisdiction of national courts
39. 39Article 94: obligation of the national court
40. 40Title 10
41. 41Title 11: supplementary provisions concerning the Office
42. 42Title 11A: international registration
43. 43Articles 107 to 109: implementing regulation, procedure of Boards of Appeal and Committee
44. 44Article 110: transitional provision
45. 45Article 110a: provisions relating to the enlargement of the Community
46. 46Article 111: entry into force
47. 47Text after Title 12