Article 10U.K.Scope of protection
1.The scope of the protection conferred by a [F1supplementary unregistered] design shall include any design which does not produce on the informed user a different overall impression.
2.In assessing the scope of protection, the degree of freedom of the designer in developing his design shall be taken into consideration.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Art. 10(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/638), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 9 (with reg. 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 14, 19); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)