The Community Design Regulation came into force on 6 March 2002, implementing the 1998 Designs Directive. The Regulation sets up a simpler and less expensive procedure for registering designs with OHIM in Alicante and also protects unregistered designs. It will significantly increase the importance of designs-related intellectual property work.This new text provides a detailed, article-by-article commentary on the Directive and the Regulation, steering practitioners through the provisions which are the biggest change in European designs law for more than a century.* The first in-depth commentary on the new legislation* Covers an area of law which is now set for major growth* Article-by-article commentary provides practitioners with all they need to understand use the Regulation* Free online updates at www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/commdesign