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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
REGISTRATION
Industrial design, as the new external appearance of the
product is registered by the Industrial Property Office after the
written application filed in the receiving office. The industrial
design application may contain up to 20 external appearances of
products of the same kind or the file of products intended for
joint use, belonging in one class of goods. The official form can
be used for the application the indispensable part of which is of
course a photograph or the drawing of the industrial design
and/or its description, summarizing those features of the design,
representing its novelty. The Office shall mark the date of
filing on the application and issues the certificate on it to the
applicant. The Office carries out the examination of the
application on the registrability of the given industrial design.
The industrial design procedure as opposed to the utility mod-
els is not carried out on the principle of registration, but
similarly as patent procedure it is backed by the substantive
examination, the application is not published before
registration. Any new two-or three-dimensional design of the
product that is susceptible of industrial application e.g. also
the work of applied art can be recorded in the Industrial Design
Register. As opposed to this, technological or construction
solution, the external appearance transferred from other prod-
uct, the substitution of material, architeetural concept of the
building and/or such modification which can be ascertained only
by special attention, cannot be an industrial design. The record
in the Register, of that the owner is given the certificate, is
valid for 5 years since application filing. The given time can be
extended twice as a maximum at another five years. The owner of
the industrial design has an exclusive right to usΘ and dispose
of it. The Office is publishing the industrial design
registration in the Gazette.
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