Disclosure

A design is disclosed if it has been published, exhibited, used in trade or has been otherwise made available to the public, except where these events could not reasonably have become known in the normal course of business to the circles specialised in the sector concerned, operating within the Community, before the date of filing of the application for the design. A design is not deemed to have been disclosed for the sole reason that it was made known to a third party under explicit or implicit conditions of confidentiality.