yes
10 years.
20 years, drug patents can apply for protection to 24 years.
Designs with a filing date after March 10, 2022, where the first disclosure occurs after that date due to:
- Inadvertently making a design public
- Didn't know the design needed to apply for protection before it was disclosed
A design patent application can enjoy a novelty grace period of 12 months.
- Registration: 2 weeks.
- Certification: 4 months.
yes. It is allowed to include multiple designs in one design application.
yes
- via Paris Convention : 12 months from earliest priority date.
- via Nationalization of PCT : 31 months from earliest priority date.
For innovation patents that have ceased application on August 25, 2021, the innovation patents that have been applied for can still enjoy the corresponding 8-year protection period.
no
yes