Article 10 Scope of protection
United Kingdom
1.
The scope of the protection conferred by a F1supplementary unregistered design shall include any design which does not produce on the informed user a different overall impression.
2.
In assessing the scope of protection, the degree of freedom of the designer in developing his design shall be taken into consideration.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Art. 10(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/638), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 9 (with reg. 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 14, 19); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)