Judgment_paragraph 62 · Easy Sanitary Solutions BV and European Union Intellectual Property Office v Group Nivelles (C-361/15 P, C-405/15 P)

62In that regard, it should be noted that, according to Article 3(a) of that regulation, a design is defined as being ‘the appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features of, in particular, the lines, contours, colours, shape, texture and/or materials of the product itself and/or its ornamentation’. It follows that, in the context of the system set out by Regulation No 6/2002, appearance is the decisive factor of a design.