Designs Directive 2024
Print this pageDIRECTIVE (EU) 2024/2823 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 October 2024 on the legal protection of designs
Chapter 1 - General provisions
Chapter 2 - Substantive law on designs
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 - Commencement and term of protection
Article 11 - Right to the registered design
Article 12 - Presumption in favour of the registered holder of the design
Article 13 - Grounds for non-registrability
Article 14 - Grounds for invalidity
Article 15 - Object of protection
Article 16 - Rights conferred by the design right
Article 17 - Presumption of validity
Article 18 - Limitation of the rights conferred by the design right
Article 20 - Exhaustion of rights
Article 21 - Rights of prior use in respect of a registered design right
Article 22 - Relationship to other forms of protection
Article 23 - Relationship to copyright
Article 24 - Registration Symbol
Chapter 3 - Procedures
Article 25 - Application requirements
Article 26 - Representation of the design
Article 27 - Multiple applications
Article 29 - Scope of substantive examination
Article 30 - Deferment of publication
Article 31 - Procedure for declaration of invalidity
Article 33 - Communication with the office
Chapter 4 - Administrative Cooperation
Article 34 - Cooperation in the area of design registration, administration and invalidity
Article 35 - Cooperation in other areas
ANNEX I - Time limit for transposition into national law (referred to in article 37)
Text in force at 01-04-2026. 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.
