{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-71/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1998/71",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 98/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-71",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purpose of this Directive:\n(a) ‘design’ means the appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features of, in particular, the lines, contours, colours, shape, texture and/or materials of the product itself and/or its ornamentation;\n(b) ‘product’ means any industrial or handicraft item, including inter alia parts intended to be assembled into a complex product, packaging, get-up, graphic symbols and typographic typefaces, but excluding computer programs;\n(c) ‘complex product’ means a product which is composed of multiple components which can be replaced permitting disassembly and reassembly of the product.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1998/71/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:06.323059+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."
}