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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-71/article-9",
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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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Scope of protection",
  "text": "1. The scope of the protection conferred by a design right shall include any design which does not produce on the informed user a different overall impression.\n2. In assessing the scope of protection, the degree of freedom of the designer in developing his design shall be taken into consideration.",
  "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/9",
    "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."
}