Industrial Design Application examination
- Formality examination
+ Application for industrial certificate will have to go through formality examation stage in order to define whether it meet the requirements to be accepted. If it does conform with all requirements,
the NOIP will confirm the application date, application number, application priority date and give the applicant a notice of accepting application.
+ Requirements for an application to be accepted: general requirements, concrete requirements of formality, and unity of application requirement.
+ Time limitation for formality examination stage is 01 month from the application date.
- Application publishing
Every trademark application that is accepted will be published in Industrial property gazette. This gazette is monthly printed and published. Anyone that need information can order a copy of the gazette from NOIP and pay money for it.
- Substantive examination
+ Substantive examination is carried out when the application is accepted and the applicant has already paid the substantive examination fees. Time limitation for this stage is 09 months from the date of notice for accepted application.
+ The aim of substantive examination is to examine whether the objects listed in application meet the protection standards provided by legal regulations
- Exclusive Industrial Design Certificate issuing and registering
+ Basing on the result of substantive examination, if the objects listed in application sastify protection standards, the NOIP will send the applicant a notice of substantive examination result and order registering fee, trademark registration certificate issuing fee, protection certificate fee.
+ Provided that applicant pays all the above fees, the NOIP will carry out procedure of issuing protection certificate to applicant, registering and publishing such certificate. If applicant does not pay such fees, application will be considered to be retracted.