Community Designs Regulation
Print this pageCouncil Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs
Title I - General provisons
Title II - The law relating to designs
Section 1 - Requirements for protection
Article 4 - Requirements for protection
Article 6 - Individual character
Article 8 - Designs dictated by their technical function and designs of interconnections
Article 9 - Designs contrary to public policy or morality
Section 2 - Scope and term of protection
Article 10 - Scope of protection
Article 11 - Commencement and term of protection of the unregistered Community design
Article 12 - Commencement and term of protection of the registered Community design
Section 3 - Right to the Community design
Article 14 - Right to the Community design
Article 15 - Claims relating to the entitlement to a Community design
Article 16 - Effects of a judgement on entitlement to a registered Community design
Article 17 - Presumption in favour of the registered holder of the design
Article 18 - Right of the designer to be cited
Section 4 - Effects of the Community design
Article 19 - Rights conferred by the Community design
Article 20 - Limitation of the rights conferred by a Community design
Article 21 - Exhaustion of rights
Article 22 - Rights of prior use in respect of a registered Community design
Section 5 - Invalidity
Article 24 - Declaration of invalidity
Article 25 - Grounds for invalidity
Article 26 - Consequences of invalidity
Title III - Community designs as objects of property
Article 27 - Dealing with Community designs as national design rights
Article 28 - Transfer of the registered Community design
Article 29 - Rights in rem on a registered Community design
Article 30 - Levy of execution
Article 31 - Insolvency proceedings
Article 33 - Effects vis-à-vis third parties
Article 34 - The application for a registered Community design as an object of property
Title IV - Application for a registered community design
Section 1- Filing of applications and the conditions which govern them
Article 35 - Filing and forwarding of applications
Article 36 - Conditions with which applications must comply
Article 37- Multiple applications
Article 39 - Equivalence of Community filing with national filing
Section 2- Priority
Article 41 - Right of priority
Article 42 - Claiming priority
Article 43 - Effect of priority right
Article 44 - Exhibition priority
Title V - Registration procedure
Article 45 - Examination as to formal requirements for filing
Article 46 - Remediable deficiencies
Article 47 - Grounds for non-registrability
Article 50 - Deferment of publication
Title VI - Surrender and invalidity of the registered community design
Article 52 - Application for a declaration of invalidity
Article 53 - Examination of the application
Article 54 - Participation in the proceedings of the alleged infringer
Title VII - Appeals
Article 55 - Decisions subject to appeal
Article 56 - Persons entitled to appeal and to be parties to appeal proceedings
Article 57 - Time limit and form of appeal
Article 58 - Interlocutory revision
Article 59 - Examination of appeals
Article 60 - Decisions in respect of appeals
Article 61 - Actions before the Court of Justice
Title VIII - Procedure before the office
Section 1 - General provisions
Article 62 - Statement of reasons on which decisions are based
Article 63 - Examination of the facts by the Office of its own motion
Article 65 - Taking of evidence
Article 67 - Restitutio in integrum
Article 68 - Reference to general principles
Article 69 - Termination of financial obligations
Section 2 - Costs
Article 70 - Apportionment of costs
Article 71 - Enforcement of decisions fixing the amount of costs
Section 3 - Informing the public and the official authorities of the Member States
Article 72 - Register of Community designs
Article 73 - Periodical publications
Article 74 - Inspection of files
Article 75 - Administrative cooperation
Article 76 - Exchange of publications
Section 4 - Representation
Article 77 - General principles of representation
Article 78 - Professional representation
Title IX - Jurisdiction and procedure in legal actions relating to community designs
Section 1 - Jurisdiction and enforcement
Article 79 - Application of the Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement
Section 2 - Disputes concerning the infringement and validity of Community designs
Article 80 - Community design courts
Article 81 - Jurisdiction over infringement and validity
Article 82 - International jurisdiction
Article 83 - Extent of jurisdiction on infringement
Article 84 - Action or counterclaim for a declaration of invalidity of a Community design
Article 85 - Presumption of validity - defence as to the merits
Article 86 - Judgements of invalidity
Article 87 - Effects of the judgement on invalidity
Article 89 - Sanctions in actions for infringement
Article 90 - Provisional measures, including protective measures
Article 91 - Specific rules on related actions
Article 92 - Jurisdiction of Community design courts of second instance - further appeal
Section 3 - Other disputes concerning Community designs
Article 94 - Obligation of the national court
Title X - Effects on the laws of the member states
Article 95 - Parallel actions on the basis of Community designs and national design rights
Article 96 - Relationship to other forms of protection under national law
Title XI - Supplementary provisions concerning the office
Section 1 - General provisions
Article 97 - General provision
Article 98 - Language of proceedings
Article 99 - Publication and register
Article 100 - Supplementary powers of the President
Article 101 - Supplementary powers of the Administrative Board
Section 2 - Procedures
Article 104 - The Administration of Trade Marks and Designs and Legal Division
Article 105 - Invalidity Divisions
Article 106 - Boards of Appeal
Title XIa - International registration of designs
Section 1 - General provisions
Article 106a - Application of provisions
Section 2 - International registrations designating the community
Article 106b - Procedure for filing the international application
Article 106c - Designation fees
Article 106d - Effects of international registration designating the European Community
Article 106f - Invalidation of the effects of an international registration
Title XII - Final provisions
Article 107 - Implementing regulation
Article 108 - Rules of procedure of the Boards Appeal
Article 110 - Transitional provision
Article 110a - Provisions relating to the enlargement of the Community
Article 111 - Entry into force
Text in force at 01-01-2020. The text can be verified at EUR-Lex. Titles of articles have been added for convenience, but are lacking in the official text, IP-PorTal.