意匠指令 Flashcard #1 : 「定義と出願オプションの現代化 – 新しい表現方法」

Article 3 (Regulation – 規則):
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
1) “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, materials of the product itself and/or its decoration, including the movement, transition or any other sort of animation of those features;
2) “product” means any industrial or handicraft item other than computer programs, regardless of whether it is embodied in a physical object or materialises in a non physical form, including:
          a. packaging, sets of articles, spatial arrangement 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;
3) “complex product” means a product that is composed of multiple components which can be replaced, permitting disassembly and reassembly of the product.

Article 2 (Directive – 指令):
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, materials of the product itself and/or 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 computer programs, regardless of whether it is embodied in a physical object or materialises in a non physical form, including:
       a) packaging, sets of articles, spatial arrangement 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.