Defined terms — Directive (EU) 2024/2823 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2024 on the legal protection of designs (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)
European Union · 32024L2823 · 288 provisions
5 defined in this instrument.
complex product — a product that is composed of multiple components which can be replaced, permitting disassembly and reassembly of the product (5)
design — the appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features, in particular the lines, contours, colours, shape, texture and/or materials, of the product itself and/or of its decoration, including the movement, transition or any other sort of animation of those features (3)
office — the central industrial property office of the Member State or the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property, entrusted with the registration of designs (1)
product — any industrial or handicraft item other than a computer program, regardless of whether it is embodied in a physical object or materialises in a non-physical form, including:
packaging, sets of articles, spatial arrangements of items intended to form an interior or exterior environment, and parts intended to be assembled into a complex product;
graphic works or symbols, logos, surface patterns, typographic typefaces, and graphical user interfaces (4)
register — the register of designs kept by an office (2)