art_3__para_3

3. 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 2026-10-16 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.