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Article 3 Definitions

United Kingdom

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For the purposes of this Regulation:

  1. (a)

    ‘design’ means the appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features of, in particular, the lines, contours, colours, shape, texture and/or materials of the product itself and/or its ornamentation;

  2. (b)

    ‘product’ means any industrial or handicraft item, including inter alia parts intended to be assembled into a complex product, packaging, get-up, graphic symbols and typographic typefaces, but excluding computer programs;

  3. (c)

    ‘complex product’ means a product which is composed of multiple components which can be replaced permitting disassembly and re-assembly of the product;

  4. (d)

    F1‘qualifying country’ and ‘qualifying territory’ mean a country or territory designated by regulations made under Article 7.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Art. 3(d) inserted (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. 4 (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)