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Industrial Designs
What is it?
According to the new and recent law of industrial design, design shall mean: the appearance of the whole or part of a product, derived from the characteristics of, in particular, the lines, contours, colors, shape, texture or materials of the product in Yes or its ornamentation.
Product:
Any industrial or artisanal article, including, inter alia, parts intended for installation in a complex product, packaging, presentation, graphic symbols and typographic characters, excluding software.
Complex product:
A product consisting of multiple replaceable components that allow the product to be dismantled and re-assembled.
Any design that fulfils the requirements established by law may be protected as a registered design by means of its registration, validly effected, in the register of designs.
Designs that are new and have a unique character may be registered, designs contrary to public order or good manners will not be recorded.
The design applied or incorporated into a product constituting a component of a complex product shall only be deemed to be new and has a unique character:
If the component, once incorporated into the complex product, remains visible during normal use; And
b) to the extent that these visible characteristics of the component present in themselves novelty and singular character. Normal use for the purposes of paragraph (a) of the preceding paragraph shall mean the use by the end user, not including maintenance, conservation or repair.
The application for registration may include a number of designs, up to a maximum of 50, as long as they relate to products belonging to the same class of the International Classification of Industrial designs established by the Locarno agreement.
What is its duration?
The design registration shall be granted for five years from the date of filing of the application for registration and may be renewed for one or more successive periods of five years up to a maximum of 25 years computed from that date.