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PHILLIPINES INDUSTRIAL DESIGN APPLICATION

1.Searching
This is the first step before an application is made for the registration of a trademark .Although a prior search is optional it helps in determining the existence of previous designs.

2.Application
Every applicant is required to submit an application to the Intellectual Patent Office in the prescribed form after which a filing date will be issued.

3.Examination
An examination of the design will be conducted after which examination and reports and will be submitted to the applicant within two months from filing date.

4. Registrability Report
Within two months from mailing date of the examination report, the applicant must request for a registrability report from the IPO.
A registrability report contains the citations of relevant prior art documents with appropriate citations as to their degree of relevance which will serve as an aid in determining the validity of the industrial design with respect to the requirement of novelty or newness.

5.Registration
If the application meets all criteria for registration and the IPO fails to receive any action from the applicant, the industrial design shall be deemed registered upon the expiration of 2 months from the mailing date of the search report and a certificate of registration will be issued in due course.

6.Publication
Within six months from registration, the industrial design will be published in the form of a bibliographic data and representative drawing in the IPO Official Gazette, together with the registrability report if one was requested.

7.Protection and Renewal
A design once registered is valid for a term of 5 years from the date of filing of the application and may be renewed for not more than 2 consecutive periods of five years each.

Charges

Industrial design application in MALAYSIA

* Multiple application is available. 

Documents Required For Filing INDUSTRIAL DESIGN APPLICATION

Maintenance Fees Of Industrial Design