CJEU confirms that partial designs may be protected as unregistered designs (but conditions apply)
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
In it, the CJEU confirmed that an Unregistered Community Design under Regulation 6/2002 may vest in a partial design (which the CJEU defines as “a section of the ‘whole’ that is the product”). In August, Advocate General (AG) Øe advised the Court to answer that partial designs may indeed be protected under UCD rights.
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