{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-6/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-6/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2002/6",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-6",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Exhaustion of rights",
  "text": "The rights conferred by a supplementary unregistered design shall not extend to acts relating to a product in which a design included within the scope of protection of the supplementary unregistered design is incorporated or to which it is applied, when the product has been put on the market in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area by the holder of the supplementary unregistered design or with his consent.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 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. 19(a) (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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/638, reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 19(b) (as substituted by The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 17(c))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/6/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:39.790015+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."
}