Registration Of Design In Portugal
The issue of registration, control and protection of legal design rights in Portugal is handled by the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI). Design is a set of certain signs and characteristics that determine the appearance of a certain product. Therefore, design registration allows you to protect these signs and characteristics of the appearance for each product separately, since design is one of the main characteristics when choosing a product by a consumer.
* the order is submitted as soon as possible depending on the design perspectives submitted by the customer.
The First Legal Portugal company comprehensively supports design registration, checks it for identity, similarity to other projects, prepares a set of documents and information and supports design registration.
In Portugal, a design is registered in 2 ways:
- Online;
- In paper form, the application is submitted to the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI).
A design can only be registered if:
- The appearance is new and not registered and published before, and;
- The general appearance is different from other products in a certain class.
That appearance may consist of: elements, contours, lines, shapes, colors, textures, etc.
Before applying for design registration, you must make sure:
- The design appearance can clearly identify your new and different product (services or products);
- That this design has not been registered before - perform a search;
- You have several and good perspectives from the design appearance to register.
The application for obtaining a registered design goes through the following stages (as long as there are no issues or official notifications):
- Application submission;
- Formal examination;
- Publication in the Industrial Property Bulletin (several weeks from the date of application registration);
- Submission of objections (2 months);
- Making a decision on registration;
The term of validity of registration in INPI is not more than 25 years and is valid exclusively on the territory of Portugal.
If you want to protect your product design in another country, you need to be aware of:
- The possibility to register directly in several countries or to register in the EU as a whole.
- There are several rules and solutions to consider and, therefore, it is highly advisable to resort to specialized technical support.
The specialists of the First Legal Portugal company will advise on issues of registration of design, logo, TM, brand, prepare a set of documents for submitting an application for design registration, check documents for their legitimacy.
