The current Design Act allows design protection only for an 'article", and the term "article" has been interpreted to be an article as the whole. Under the new law, it is prescribed that the term "article" includes "part of an article." Thus, several different design rights may therefore be claimed in a single article.
On filing a design application for a part of an article, the applicant is required to designate the name of the article, not the name of the part of the article. (Art. 2)