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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-71/article-16",
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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/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Relationship to other forms of protection",
  "text": "The provisions of this Directive shall be without prejudice to any provisions of Community law or of the law of the Member State concerned relating to unregistered design rights, trade marks or other distinctive signs, patents and utility models, typefaces, civil liability or unfair competition.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1998/71/article/16",
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  },
  "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."
}