Article 2 - Definitions

For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply:

(1) ‘office’ means the central industrial property office of the Member State or the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property, entrusted with the registration of designs;

(2) ‘register’ means the register of designs kept by an office;

(3) ‘design’ means the appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features, in particular the lines, contours, colours, shape, texture and/or materials, of the product itself and/or of its decoration, including the movement, transition or any other sort of animation of those features;

(4) ‘product’ means any industrial or handicraft item other than a computer program, regardless of whether it is embodied in a physical object or materialises in a non-physical form, including:

(a) packaging, sets of articles, spatial arrangements of items intended to form an interior or exterior environment, and parts intended to be assembled into a complex product;

(b) graphic works or symbols, logos, surface patterns, typographic typefaces, and graphical user interfaces;

(5) ‘complex product’ means a product that is composed of multiple components which can be replaced, permitting disassembly and reassembly of the product.