Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs Basic information Dates Date of document: Date of publication: Date of effect: March 6, 2002 Entry into force - Date pub. + 60 See Art 111 Deadline: April 1, 2003 December 8, 2024 January 1, 2030 Modified by Modified by: All documents based on this document: Modifies Affected by case Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 October 2021. Ferrari SpA v Mansory Design & Holding GmbH and WH. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof. Reference for a preliminary ruling – Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 – Community designs – Articles 4, 6 and 11 – Infringement proceedings – Unregistered Community design – Appearance of a part of a product – Conditions for protection – Component part of a complex product – Individual character – Act of making available to the public. Case C-123/20. Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 2 July 2009. Fundación Española para la Innovación de la Artesanía (FEIA) v Cul de Sac Espacio Creativo SL and Acierta Product & Position SA. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Juzgado de lo Mercantil nº 1 de Alicante y nº 1 de Marca Comunitaria - Spain. Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Community designs - Articles 14 and 88 - Proprietor of the right to the Community design - Unregistered design - Commissioned design. Case C-32/08. Judgment of the Court (First Chamber), 16 February 2012. Celaya Emparanza y Galdos Internacional SA v Proyectos Integrales de Balizamiento SL. Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil nº 1 de Alicante y nº 1 de Marca Comunitaria. Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Article 19(1) — Community designs — Infringement or threatened infringement — Definition of ‘third parties’. C‑488/10. Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 2 March 2023. Papierfabriek Doetinchem B.V. v Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Wellpappenwerk & Co. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf. Reference for a preliminary ruling – Intellectual property – Community designs – Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 – Article 8(1) – Features of appearance of a product dictated solely by its technical function – Criteria for assessment – Existence of alternative designs – Proprietor also holding a multitude of alternative protected designs – Multicolour appearance of a product not reflected in the registration of the design concerned. Case C-684/21. Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber), 13 February 2014. H. Gautzsch Großhandel GmbH & Co. KG v Münchener Boulevard Möbel Joseph Duna GmbH. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Intellectual property — Community designs — Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Articles 7(1), 11(2), 19(2), 88 and 89(1)(a) and (d) — Unregistered Community design — Protection — Making available to the public — Novelty — Action for infringement — Burden of proof — Extinction of rights over time — Time-barring — Applicable law. Case C‑479/12. A89P1LD A19P2 A11P2 A19P2L1 A89P1LA A07P1 A88P2 Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 June 2016. Thomas Philipps GmbH & Co. KG v Grüne Welle Vertriebs GmbH. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Intellectual property — Community designs — Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Articles 32 and 33 — Licence — Register of Community designs — Right of the licensee to bring proceedings for infringement notwithstanding the fact that the licence has not been entered in the register — Right of the licensee to bring proceedings for infringement in order to obtain damages for its own loss. Case C-419/15. Case C-32/08: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 2 July 2009 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil n o 1 de Alicante y n o 1 de Marca Comunitaria — Spain) — Fundación Española para la Innovación de la Artesanía (FEIA) v Cul de Sac Espacio Creativo SL, Acierta Product Position SA (Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Community designs — Articles 14 and 88 — Proprietor of the right to the Community design — Unregistered design — Commissioned design) {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 14.3 {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 14.1 Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 27 September 2017. Nintendo Co. Ltd v BigBen Interactive GmbH and BigBen Interactive SA. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf. References for a preliminary ruling — Intellectual property — Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Article 20(1)(c), Article 79(1) and Articles 82, 83, 88 and 89 — Action for infringement — Limitation of the rights conferred by the Community design — Concept of ‘citations’ — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Article 6(1) — Jurisdiction in respect of the co-defendant domiciled outside the Member State of the forum — Territorial scope of the jurisdiction of the Community design courts — Regulation (EC) No 864/2007 — Article 8(2) — Law applicable to claims seeking the adoption of orders relating to sanctions and other measures. Joined Cases C-24/16 and C-25/16. A89P1 A88P2 A20P1LC A79P1 A82P1 Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 20 December 2017. Acacia Srl v Pneusgarda Srl and Audi AG and Acacia Srl and Rolando D'Amato v Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG. Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Corte d'appello di Milano and the Bundesgerichtshof. References for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Community designs — Article 110(1) — No protection — ‘Repair’ clause — Concept of ‘component part of a complex product’ — Repair of the complex product so as to restore its original appearance — Measures to be adopted by the user for the purposes of relying on the ‘repair’ clause — Replica car wheel rim identical to the original wheel rim design. Joined Cases C-397/16 and C-435/16. Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 8 March 2018. DOCERAM GmbH v CeramTec GmbH. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Intellectual and industrial property — Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Community design — Article 8(1) — Features of appearance of a product solely dictated by its technical function — Criteria for assessment — Existence of alternative designs — Consideration of the point of view of an ‘objective observer’. Case C-395/16. Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 13 July 2017. Bayerische Motoren Werke AG v Acacia Srl. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Jurisdiction in civil and commercial matters — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Intellectual property — Community designs — Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Articles 81 and 82 — Action for a declaration of non-infringement — Jurisdiction of Community design courts of the Member State where the defendant is domiciled. Case C-433/16. Order of the Court (Third Chamber) of 6 October 2015. Ford Motor Company v Wheeltrims srl. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale ordinario di Torino. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Designs — Directive 98/71/EC — Article 14 — Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Article 110 — So-called ‘repair’ clause — Use by a third party of a trade mark, without the consent of the owner, for replacement parts or accessories for motor vehicles identical to the goods for which the trade mark is registered. Case C-500/14. Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 3 March 2022. Acacia Srl v Bayerische Motoren Werke AG. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf. Reference for a preliminary ruling – Intellectual property – Community designs – Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 – Article 82(5) – Action brought before the courts of the Member State in which an act of infringement has been committed or threatened – Claims supplementary to the action for infringement – Applicable law – Article 88(2) – Article 89(1)(d) – Regulation (EC) No 864/2007 – Law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome II) – Article 8(2) – Country in which the intellectual property right was infringed. Case C-421/20. Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber), 19 June 2014. Karen Millen Fashions Ltd v Dunnes Stores and Dunnes Stores (Limerick) Ltd. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court (Ireland). Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Community design — Article 6 — Individual character — Different overall impression — Article 85(2) — Unregistered Community design — Validity — Conditions — Burden of proof. Case C‑345/13. Case C-397/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte d’appello di Milano (Italy) lodged on 18 July 2016 — Acacia Srl v Pneusgarda Srl (in bankruptcy), Audi AG Case C-123/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 4 March 2020 — Ferrari SpA v Mansory Design & Holding GmbH, WH article 4 paragraph 2 point (b) article 11 paragraph 2 sentence 1 article 11 paragraph 1 article 6 paragraph 1 Case C-684/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 12 November 2021 — Papierfabriek Doetinchem B.V. v Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Wellpappenwerk & Co. Case C-728/19: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) (United Kingdom) made on 2 October 2019 – Beverly Hills Teddy Bear Company v PMS International Group article 5 paragraph 1 point (a) article 7 paragraph 1 article 11 paragraph 1 article 11 paragraph 2 article 7 paragraph 1 sentence article 11 article 11 paragraph 2 sentence Case C-433/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione (Italy) lodged on 3 August 2016 — Bayerische Motoren Werke AG v Acacia S.r.l. article 82 paragraph 5 article 81 article 82 paragraph 1 Case C-421/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 8 September 2020 — Acacia Srl v Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft article 19 article 82 paragraph 5 Case C-395/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 15 July 2016 — DOCERAM GmbH v CeramTec GmbH Case C-25/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 18 January 2016 — Nintendo Co. Ltd v BigBen Interactive GmbH, BigBen Interactive S.A. article 20 paragraph 1 point (c) article 79 paragraph 1 Case C-435/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 4 August 2016 — Acacia Srl and Rolando D’Amato v Dr.Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG Case C-678/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Netherlands) lodged on 5 November 2018 — Procureur-Generaal bij de Hoge Raad der Nederlanden Case C-211/24, LEGO: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Törvényszék (Hungary) lodged on 18 March 2024 – LEGO A/S v Pozitív Energiaforrás Kft. article 8 paragraph 3 article 89 paragraph 1 article 10 Case C-419/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 30 July 2015 — Thomas Philipps GmbH & Co. KG v Grüne Welle Vertriebs GmbH article 33 paragraph 2 sentence 1 article 32 paragraph 4 article 32 paragraph 3 Case C-24/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 18 January 2016 — Nintendo Co. Ltd v BigBen Interactive GmbH, BigBen Interactive S.A. article 20 paragraph 1 point (c) article 79 paragraph 1 Case C-334/22: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie (Poland) lodged on 23 May 2022 — Audi AG v GQ Case C-345/13: Reference for a preliminary ruling from Supreme Court (Ireland) made on 24 June 2013 — Karen Millen Fashions Ltd v Dunnes Stores, Dunnes Stores (Limerick) Ltd Legal basis Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version) Part Six: General and Final Provisions Article 308 Article 235 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version) Article 235 - EEC Treaty EuroVoc Vocabulary Other sectors for approximation of laws Intellectual property law Freedom of establishment Internal market - Principles European Union Intellectual Property Office Approximation of laws Intellectual, industrial and commercial property EU trade mark Designs and models