Industrial Design
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Designs and industrial models in Saudi Arabia are governed by Patents, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Varieties and Industrial Models Law which was issued, as per Royal Decree No. M/27 dated July 17, 2004.
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The law, which provides full protection for industrial designs in KSA was published in the Official Gazette No. 4004, dated August 6, 2004 and enforced on September 6, 2004.
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The Implementing Regulations for the aforementioned law were issued as per an administrative decision on December 26, 2004 and enforced on the same date.
Absolute universal novelty is stipulated by the design law. However, applications are examined with respect to formalities only.
Therefore, filing of a disclosed design application may also be accepted. However, any interested party can invalidate the registered design due to lack of novelty, by filing a request before the Committee at the Saudi Patent Office proofing that the design was publicly disclosed prior to the application's local filing date.
Please note that filing Multi-Design Application is no longer possible in Saudi Arabia. Accordingly, separate applications should be filed for each design.
Protection period for industrial designs and models shall be 10 years from the date of filing the application.
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