# Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs, Article 11: Commencement and term of protection of the supplementary unregistered ... design

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. A design which meets the requirements under Section 1 shall be protected by a supplementary unregistered ... design for a period of three years as from the date on which the design was first made available to the public within the United Kingdom, a qualifying country or a qualifying territory.
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1, a design shall be deemed to have been made available to the public within the United Kingdom, a qualifying country or a qualifying territory if it has been published, exhibited, used in trade or otherwise disclosed in such a way that, in the normal course of business, these events could reasonably have become known to the circles specialised in the sector concerned, operating within the United Kingdom, a qualifying country or a qualifying territory. The design shall not, however, be deemed to have been made available to the public for the sole reason that it has been disclosed to a third person under explicit or implicit conditions of confidentiality.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/6/article/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-6/article-11
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