In addition to the application fee, there are no official granted fees to pay. A registered industrial design in Hungary is valid for five years from the filing date. A design registration can be renewed four times for a period of five years, with a maximum term of protection of 25 years from the filing date. The application for renewal shall be submitted within 6 months before the expiration of the validity period or within the grace period for another 6 months.
Hungarian Intellectual Property Office
English: Hungarian Intellectual Property Office, abbreviation: HIPO
URL: http://www.hipo.gov.hu/en
Hungarian Patent Search: epub.hpo.hu/e-kutatas/?lang=EN
Filing Language: Hungarian
Necessary documents:
- Exterior Design Picture (Six Views)
 - A Brief Description
 
Attachments (if any):
- Certified Priority Document
 - Power of Attorney
 - Certified Priority Document
 - small entity declaration
 - inventor statement
 - Declaration of Ownership/Certification of Employment/Assignment of priority
 - Assignment for Patent Right Transfer
 - IDS Form/IDS Document/prior art
 
The patent grant procedure is divided into two separate stages:
- The first stage is the formality examination stage, from the filing of the patent application to the publication of the patent application.
 - The second stage is the substantive examination stage after publication. If the application meets the formal requirements, the Hungarian Patent Office will manage the filing date and perform a novelty search. The request for substantive examination can be made at the time of filing the application or at the latest within 6 months from the date of publication of the search report in the Official Gazette.
 
In Hungary, the following disclosures provide for a novelty grace period of 12 months:
- Disclosures resulting from abuse related to the applicant or his legal predecessors;
- the disclosure was made by the applicant, his predecessor or a third party (if the information was provided by the applicant or his predecessor).Furthermore, if the design is disclosed to a third party under conditions of confidentiality, the disclosure will be disregarded.
Filing Language: Hungarian
via Paris Convention via Nationalization of PCT Necessary documents:
- Abstract
 - Abstract Drawing
 - Claim
 - Specification
 - Drawing
 
Necessary documents:
- Abstract
 - Abstract Drawing
 - Claim
 - Specification
 - Drawing
 
Attachments (if any)
- Sequence Listing (PDF format and TXT format)
 - Microorganism preservation certificate and its English translation
 - Microorganism Survival Certificate and Its English Translation
 - Scanned Copy of Certified Priority Document / DAS
 - Power of Attorney
 - small entity declaration
 - inventor statement
 - Declaration of Ownership/Certification of Employment/Assignment of priority
 - Assignment for Patent Right Transfer
 - Notification issued by CNIPA notify the applicant the application has passed through the security review
 - IDS Form/IDS Document/prior art
 
Attachments (if any)
- WIPO Publication
 - ISR/IPRP
 - Enter the US national phase 19/28/34/41 Amendments
 - Sequence Listing (PDF format and TXT format)
 - Microorganism preservation certificate and its English translation
 - Microorganism Survival Certificate and Its English Translation
 - Power of Attorney
 - small entity declaration
 - inventor statement
 - Declaration of Ownership/Certification of Employment/Assignment of priority
 - Assignment for Patent Right Transfer
 - IDS Form/IDS Document/prior art
 
10 years
no
20 years
- via Paris Convention : 12 months from earliest priority date
 - via Nationalization of PCT : 31 months from the earliest priority date (Applications may be filed within 3 months of expiry of the 31-month period, subject to payment of additional fees.)
 - Ways to take effect in Europe: within 3 months of the European patent grant announcement date
 
The novelty grace period in Hungary is 6 months before the filing date if disclosure occurs:
- due to abuse of the rights of the applicant or his predecessors;
- because the applicant or the predecessor of the right holder has exhibited the invention at an exhibition duly recognized by the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office.