The Community Design Regulations 2005

Privilege for communications with those on the special list of professional design representativesU.K.

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4.—(1) This regulation applies to communications as to any matter relating to the protection of [F1a supplementary unregistered] design.

(2) Any such communication—

(a)between a person and his professional designs representative, or

(b)for the purposes of obtaining, or in response to a request for, information which a person is seeking for the purpose of instructing his professional designs representative,

is privileged from, or in Scotland protected against, disclosure in legal proceedings in the same way as a communication between a person and his solicitor or, as the case may be, a communication for the purpose of obtaining, or in response to a request for, information which a person is seeking for the purpose of instructing his solicitor.

[F2(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 IP completion day.]

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