{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-6/article-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-6/article-81.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/81",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "The “design court” – Jurisdiction over infringement and validity",
  "text": "(1.) In this Regulation, “design court” means—\n(a) in England and Wales, the High Court;\n(b) in Scotland, the sheriff court and the Court of Session; and\n(c) in Northern Ireland, the county court and the High Court.\n(2.) The design court has exclusive jurisdiction—\n(a) for infringement actions and actions in respect of threatened infringement of supplementary unregistered designs;\n(b) for actions for declaration of non-infringement of supplementary unregistered designs;\n(c) for actions for a declaration of invalidity of a supplementary unregistered design;\n(d) for counterclaims for a declaration of invalidity of a supplementary unregistered design raised in connection with actions under (a).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 81 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. 33 (with reg. 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 14, 17(e), 19); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/6/article/81",
    "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."
}