1. 10 th Liaison Meeting on Designs DISCLAIMERS Dimitrios Andrianopoulos Designs Service, OHIM Alicante, 21 November 2011

2. Examination Guidelines 11.4 The representation of a design should be limited to the features for which protection is sought. However, the representations may comprise other elements that help identify the features of a design for which protection is sought. In an application for registration of a Community design the following identifiers are allowed: 1. Dotted lines may be used in a view either to indicate the elements for which no protection is sought or to indicate portions of the design which are not visible in that particular view, i.e. non- visible lines. Therefore, dotted lines identify elements which are not part of the view in which they are used. 2. Boundaries may be used to surround features of the design for which protection is sought. 3. Colouring, colour shading or blurring may be used to highlight the features of the design for which protection is sought.

3. RCD 30606-0005 RCD 1257968-0002 Dotted lines 001938002-0001

4. RCD 1282545-0001 RCD 1282545-0004 Dotted lines

5. RCD 412812-0002 RCD 294616-0001 Not a disclaimer RCD 412812-0001

6. Boundaries RCD 919592-0001 RCD 164611-0004 RCD 1873688-0003 RCD 1873688-0002

7. The boundary is an explanatory element that must be removed according to Art. 4(1)(c) CDIR Not a disclaimer RCD 777271-0001 INDP: mugs

8. RCD 229752-0001 RCD 505649-0001 RCD 220405-0003 Colouring/Colour shading

9. RCD 1880592 Colouring/Colour shading

10. RCD 725148-0001/0002 INDP: Pockets and ornamentation for pockets Not a disclaimer

11. RCD 1792623 Blurring

12. RCD 01760307-0006 RCD 222120-0002 RCD 244520-0002 Blurring

13. RCD 1195630 -0001 Blurring

14. RCD 1642836-0001 INDP: Bottle holder

15. RCD 1642836-0002

16. RCD 1936188-0001 INDP: portion of a table top

18. Decisions of the Board of Appeal Gordon Humphreys Board of Appeal, OHIM

19. Board of Appeal Contested RCD Prior Design DECISION OF 24 JANUARY 2011 – R 91/2010-3 – BATH TUBS

20. Board of Appeal 2010-3 – Part of a sanitary napkin D468, 426: D468, 425: Registered Community Design US patent designs

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