Designs Directive
Print this pageDirective 98/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs
Article 2 - Scope of application
Article 3 - Protection requirements
Article 5 - Individual character
Article 7 - Designs dictated by their technical function and designs of interconnections
Article 8 - Designs contrary to public policy or morality
Article 9 - Scope of protection
Article 10 - Term of protection
Article 11 - Invalidity or refusal of registration
Article 12 - Rights conferred by the design right
Article 13 - Limitation of the rights conferred by the design right
Article 14 - Transitional provision
Article 15 - Exhaustion of rights
Article 16 - Relationship to other forms of protection
Article 17 - Relationship to copyright
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.
