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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
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- 1988 c. 48
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264 Index of defined expressions.E+W+S+N.I.
The following Table shows provisions defining or otherwise explaining expressions used in this Part (other than provisions defining or explaining an expression used only in the same section)—
| account of profits and accounts (in Scotland) | section 262 |
| assignment (in Scotland) | section 262 |
| British designs | section 263(1) |
| business | section 263(1) |
| commercial purposes | section 263(3) |
| commission | section 263(1) |
| the comptroller | section 263(1) |
| computer-generated | section 263(1) |
| costs (in Scotland) | section 262 |
| country | section 263(1) |
| the Crown | section 263(1) |
| Crown use | sections 240(5) and 244(2) |
| defendant (in Scotland) | section 262 |
| delivery up (in Scotland) | section 262 |
| design | section 213(2) |
| design document | section 263(1) |
| designer | sections 214 and 259(2) |
| design right | section 213(1) |
| design right owner | sections 234(2) and 258 |
| employee, employment and employer | section 263(1) |
| exclusive licence | section 225(1) |
| government department | section 263(1) |
| government department concerned (in relation to Crown use) | section 240(5) |
| infringing article | section 228 |
| injunction (in Scotland) | section 262 |
| interlocutory relief (in Scotland) | section 262 |
| joint design | section 259(1) |
| licence (of the design right owner) | sections 222(4), 223(3) and 258 |
| making articles to a design | section 226(2) |
| marketing (and related expressions) | section 263(2) |
| original | section 213(4) |
| plaintiff (in Scotland) | section 262 |
| qualifying individual | section 217(1) |
| qualifying person | sections 217(1) and (2) |
| signed | section 261 |
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