(Statutory provisions in parentheses correspond to the Design Act or mutatis mutandis provisions in the Patent Act.)
- 1. APPLICATION
- 1) Applicant (Art. 3, Pat. Art. 25)
- 2) Formal Documents required at the Time of Filing Applications (Art. 9)
- 2. REQUISITES OF DESIGN REGISTRABILITY
- 1) Principle of Unity of Design (Art. 11)
- 2) Design relating to a Set of Articles (Art. 12)
- 3) Multiple Designs for one application
- 4) Unregistrable Designs (Art. 6)
- 5) Definition and Registrability of Design (Arts. 2(i) & 5)
- 6) Division and Conversion of Applications (Arts. 19 & 20)
- 7) Secret Designs (Art. 13)
- 3. EXAMINATION
- 1) System of Examination (Art. 25)
- 2) System of Preferential Examination (Pat. Art. 61)
- 3) No Examination of Design applications for textile patterns and other similiar items
- 4. DESIGN FEE AND REGISTRATION OF DESIGN
- 1) Design Fee (Arts. 31 & 33)
- 2) Design Registration (Art. 38)
- 5. DESIGN RIGHT
- 1) Generation of Design Right (Art. 39)
- 2) Term of Design Right (Art. 40)
- 3) License Right (Arts. 48 & 49)
- 4) Working of the Registered Design Right (Art. 41, 2 (iii))
- 6. LICENSE AGREEMENT
- 1) Exclusive License
- 2) Nonexclusive License
- 3) Necessary documents
- 4) Government Approval of License Agreement
- 7. PROTECTION OF REGISTRANT AND LITIGATION (Arts. 62 & 63)
- There is no difference between the patent rights and design rights in protection of rights and please refer to the patent rights protection page.
- 8. TRIAL AND APPEAL TRIAL (Ch. VII)
- 1) Invalidation trial
- 2) Trial to Confirm the Scope of Design Right
- 3) Trial for Granting Nonexclusive License describe link
- 9. TRANSFER OR ASSIGNMENT OF DESIGN APPLICATION AND DESIGN RIGHT
- All the procedure and necessary forms are same as that of patent right transfer and please refer to the patent application and rights transfer page.
- 1) Transfer of Design Application (Pat. Art. 37)
- 2) Transfer of Design Right (Art. 46)