The entirety of the various features perceived by the human senses as constituting the appearance of the whole or part of a product or its ornamentation; ”product” in this context includes any industrial or handicraft product, parts of a complex system, sets, compositions of items, packaging, get-up, graphic symbols and typefaces, but does not include computer programs or semiconductor products. To be eligible for protection a design must be new and have an individual character; designs of products which are parts of complex items may be protected if and when the design of the part itself is new and has individual character.

The following can not be protected:

1) designs determined by a technical function which does not leave the designer any freedom in designing characteristics and elements; and

2) designs which must necessarily be reproduced in their exact form and dimensions so as to allow the product in which they are incorporated or to which they are applied to be mechanically assembled or connected to other products. However, designs that serve the purpose of allowing simultaneous and infinite or multiple assembly or connection of identical or mutually inter-changeable products within a modular system may be protected provided the requirements of novelty and individual character are met.

The term ”industrial designs” covers both three-dimensional and two-dimensional designs.