SCHEDULE 3U.K.Amendments to the 1949 Act to make provision for certain registered Community designs and International designs to be treated as registered under the 1949 Act from [F1IP completion day] and about certain applications for registered Community designs made before [F1IP completion day]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in Sch. 3 heading substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 21(a)

2.  Before section 13, insert—U.K.

Application of the Act to certain registered Community designs

12A.  Schedule 1A makes provision—

(a)for registered Community designs (including certain designs whose registration has expired or which have been removed from the register) to be treated as registered under this Act with effect from [F2IP completion day], and

(b)about certain applications for registered Community designs made before [F2IP completion day].

Application of the Act to certain international designs

12B.  Schedule 1B makes provision—

(a)for certain designs which are registered in the international register maintained by the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization in respect of which the European Union is designated (including certain designs whose registration has expired) to be treated as registered under this Act with effect from [F2IP completion day], and

(b)about certain applications made before [F2IP completion day] to register in the international register maintained by the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization a design in respect of which the European Union is designated..

Textual Amendments

F2Words in Sch. 3 para. 2 substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 21(b)

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 3 para. 2 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1