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EU design law overhaul: dynamic digital designs, repair clause, transit and 3D-printing enforcement - review portfolios ahead of 2025-2026 application reforms

Published on: 30 April 2025

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Companies across fashion, entertainment, healthcare and gaming stand to gain from the EU’s refreshed design regime arriving on 1 May 2025. The package ushers in sweeping updates to design rights, bolsters legal safeguards and even rebrands community designs as ‘European Union Designs’. Experts caution IP practitioners to track the headline changes as the measures start to take effect in May. Giulia Maienza, senior associate at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, warned that although roll-out will be staged, businesses should promptly audit design portfolios and refine future design plans now to stay ahead and be prepared when the full framework applies. The Council of the EU signed off the reforms in October 2024, overhauling the Directive on legal protection of designs and amending the regulation governing community designs. See: LNB News 10/10/2024 58. According to the Council, a key objective is to ‘improve the protection of industrial designs in the era of digital designs and 3D printing’, while aligning procedures between EU and national systems...

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