The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 638

SCHEDULE 1 U.K. Amendments to the Design Regulation and 2005 Regulations relating to the creation and application of the supplementary unregistered design right etc.

PART 2 U.K. 2005 Regulations and the supplementary unregistered design right

53.  The 2005 Regulations are amended as follows. U.K.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 53 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Regulation 1: interpretation U.K.

54.  In regulation 1—

(a) for the definitions in paragraph (2), substitute—

““design court” has the meaning given by Article 81 of the Design Regulation;

“Design Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12th December 2001 on Community Designs as amended by regulation 4(1) of, and Part 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018; and

“supplementary unregistered design” has the meaning given by Article 1 of the Design Regulation.”;

(b) omit paragraph (3).

Commencement Information

I2 Sch. 1 para. 54 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Regulation 1A: infringement proceedings U.K.

55.  In regulation 1A—

(a) in paragraph (1) omit “Community”, in both places it appears;

(b) in paragraph (2)—

(i) for “paragraphs (3) to”, substitute “ paragraph ”;

(ii) for “Community”, in both places where it appears, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”;

(c) omit paragraphs (3) and (4);

(d) in paragraph (5)—

(i) for “an”, in both places where it appears before “unregistered”, substitute “a supplementary”;

(ii) omit “Community”, in both places where it appears.

Commencement Information

I3 Sch. 1 para. 55 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Regulation 1B: order for delivery up U.K.

56.  In regulation 1B—

(a) in paragraph (1)(b)—

(i) for “Community”, in the first and second places where it appears, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”;

(ii) omit “Community”, in the third place where it appears;

(iii) before “court”, in the second place where it appears, insert “ design ”;

(b) in paragraph (2), before “court”, in both places where it appears, insert “ design ”;

(c) in paragraph (4), for “Community”, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”;

(d) in paragraph (8), before “court”, insert “ design ”.

Commencement Information

I4 Sch. 1 para. 56 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Regulation 1C: order for disposal U.K.

57.  In regulation 1C—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) in the words before sub-paragraph (a), omit “Community”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), for “Community”, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (b), before “court”, insert “ design ”;

(b) in paragraph (2)—

(i) before “court”, insert “ design ”;

(ii) for “Community”, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”;

(c) in paragraphs (3) and (4), before “court”, insert “ design ”.

Commencement Information

I5 Sch. 1 para. 57 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Regulation 1D: meaning of “infringing article” U.K.

58.  In regulation 1D—

(a) in paragraphs (2), (3)(b) and (4), for “Community”, in each place where it appears, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”;

(b) in paragraph (5), for the words from “an enforceable” to the end substitute “ anything which forms part of retained EU law as a result of section 3 or 4 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 M1 ”.

Commencement Information

I6 Sch. 1 para. 58 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Marginal Citations

M1 2018 c.16.

Regulation 2: unjustified threats: threats of infringement proceedings U.K.

59.  In regulation 2(1), for “Community”, in both places where it appears, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”.

Commencement Information

I7 Sch. 1 para. 59 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Regulation 2B: unjustified threats: permitted communications U.K.

60.  In regulation 2B—

(a) in paragraph (2), for “Community”, in each place where it appears, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”;

(b) in paragraph (3), before “court”, insert “ design ”;

(c) in paragraph (5)—

(i) omit sub-paragraphs (a)(i) and (ii);

(ii) in sub-paragraph (a)(iii)—

(aa) for “an”, substitute “ a supplementary ”;

(bb) omit “Community”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (b), for “Community”, in both places where it appears, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”.

Commencement Information

I8 Sch. 1 para. 60 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Regulation 2C, 2E and 2F: unjustified threats: general U.K.

61.—(1) In regulation 2C(2), for “Community”, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”.

(2) Omit regulation 2E.

(3) In regulation 2F, for “Community”, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”.

Commencement Information

I9 Sch. 1 para. 61 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Regulation 3: false representation U.K.

62.  Omit regulation 3.

Commencement Information

I10 Sch. 1 para. 62 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Regulation 4: privileged communications U.K.

63.  In regulation 4—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “any”, in the second place where it appears, substitute “ a supplementary unregistered ”;

(b) for paragraph (3), substitute—

“(3) In paragraph (2) “professional designs representative” means a person whose name appears on the special list of professional representatives for design matters maintained by the European Union Intellectual Property Office referred to in Article 78(4) of Council Regulation (EC) 6/2002 of 12th December 2001 on Community designs as it had effect immediately before [F1 IP completion day].”.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 1 para. 63(b) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 18

Commencement Information

I11 Sch. 1 para. 63 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Regulation 5 and the Schedule: services of the Crown U.K.

64.—(1) In regulation 5—

(a) in the heading, for “Community”, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”;

(b) omit “registered Community designs and”;

(c) before “unregistered”, insert “ supplementary ”;

(d) omit “Community”, in the second place where it appears.

(2) In the Schedule—

(a) for “Community”, in each place where it appears, substitute “ supplementary unregistered ”;

(b) before “court”, in each place where it appears, insert “ design ”;

(c) omit paragraph 5(6).

Commencement Information

I12 Sch. 1 para. 64 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1