Industrial Designs


The model and industrial design patent has been abolished, however, they may be sensitive to REGISTER OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN for “all ornamental plastic form of an object or the ornamental set of lines and colors that can be applied to a product, providing a new visual result and originality in its configuration and which can be intended for industrial manufacturing”.

A) Novelty When it is not comprised in the state of art.

B) Priority Provided for by the Paris Union Convention or International Organization which produces a national filing effect.

C) Published and Granted The application shall be immediately after being published and granted.

D) Term of duration Ten years as of the filing date allowed to be extended for three seccessive periods of five years each.

E) Examination The holder of the registration shall apply for the examination of merit, that is, as for the aspects of the novelty and originality.

F) Administrative Invalidation It may be made by the office or at the request of the interest party within five years as of the dated it is granted.

G) Compensation The compensation shall be fortnightly as of the second period of five days as of the filing date.


Report edite by Tinoco Soares - June 2003___

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