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A design applied to or incorporated in a product which constitutes a component part of a complex product shall only be considered to be new and to have individual character: if the component part, once it has been incorporated into the complex product, remains visible during normal use of the latter, and to the extent that those visible features of the component part fulfil in themselves the requirements as to novelty and individual character.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.