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Directive (EU) 2024/2823 Article 2

Directive (EU) 2024/2823 Article 2

Definitions

Article 2

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.

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