The Registered Designs Regulations 2001

7.—(1) Section 22 of that Act(1) (inspection of registered designs) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2) for the words from the beginning to “no” there shall be substituted—

• “Where—

  (a)

  a design has been registered;

  (b)

  a product to which the design was intended to be applied or in which it was intended to be incorporated was specified, in accordance with rules made under section 36 of this Act, in the application for the registration of the design; and

  (c)

  the product so specified falls within any class prescribed for the purposes of this subsection,

  no”.

(3) Also in subsection (2)—

(a) for the word “articles” there shall be substituted “products”; and

(b) for the words from “it is the same” to “trade” there shall be substituted “, by reference to the first-mentioned design, it is not new or does not have individual character”.

(4) In subsection (3) for the words from “design” to “class” there shall be substituted “registered design and a specified product which falls within any class”.

(1)

Section 22(2) and (3) were amended by section 272 of, and paragraph 12 of Schedule 3 to, the 1988 Act.