49In the absence of any definition of the term ‘part of a product’ in Regulation No 6/2002, it must be understood in accordance with its usual meaning in everyday language (see, by analogy, judgment of 20 December 2017, Acacia and D’Amato, C‑397/16 and C‑435/16, EU:C:2017:992, paragraph 64 and the case-law cited). As the Advocate General observed in point 107 of his Opinion, it is a section of the ‘whole’ that is the product. For the appearance of that section to be protected as a Community design, it must, by definition, be visible. The same is true, as is apparent from the wording of Article 4(2) of that regulation, where the design claimed consists of a component part of a complex product.
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