National design protection systems continue nevertheless to be necessary for those individual designers and undertakings that do not want the protection of their designs at Union level, or are unable to obtain Union-wide protection, even though they do not face any obstacles for obtaining national protection. It should be left to each person seeking design protection to decide what kind of protection they wish to obtain, be it a national design right in one or more Member States, an EU design only, or both.
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