The combination, harmonization or colors of stripes or lines or colors appearing on a products in a new and distinct manner different from the drawings known before which may give the product a style or a special form that distinguishes it from other similar products either handmade or made through using a computer or machine, including the designs of textiles and other materials shall be considered as an industrial design.
Any external shape of drawing, both associated with lines or colors or not provided it should be a new and distinct from the designs known before, and gives a special shape that can be used for an industrial, professional or handmade product.
Novelty and distinction.
5 years from the date of application for registration and shall expire after 5 years from the last day of the month in which the application for registration was filed. The registration specified for 5 years, can be renewed for 2 successive periods of 5 years each provided that the renewal shall be effected during the last year of the term of protection against payment of the fixed fee and shall be published in the Directorate Journal.
6 months to renew the registration as of the date of expiry of the previous protection period in exchange of paying a delay fee.
YES, within 6 months as of the filing date.
All documents must be submitted within 6 months of filing date.
If two persons or more have jointly invented an industrial drawing or design, the right to register the same shall be to all of them on equal footings or to whom such right was devolved registered unless they agree otherwise.
The application may include a number of drawings or designs not exceeding 5 provided that they form a homogeneous unit and after payment of the fees specified for each of them.
YES, it may be transferred fully or in part by means of sale or assignment, in exchange for a compensation or otherwise, by means of inheritance or testament. It may also be mortgaged or account it for any due right and may be transferred along with the corporation, commercial project or without either one.
YES, assignment may not constitute an argument against others before entering it into the register and the registration is published.
YES, within 90 days of the date of transfer after payment of the prescribed fees. Any delay in entering the registration requires an additional fee as prescribed in the law.
YES, the owner of the registered design may license others to exploit and invest the design.
Exploitation licensing for use and investment is not thereinafter deemed valid for others before entering it into the special register within 90 days of the date of licensing and after paying the due fees. Any delay in entering the license into the Directorate register is liable to an additional fee and thus published as per prescribed law.
YES, imprisonment and fine.