What are the requirements for Swedish industrial design application documents

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Filing Language: Swedish/English

Necessary documents:

  1. Exterior Design Picture (Six Views)
  2. A Brief Description

Attachments (if any):

  1. Power of Attorney
  2. Certified Priority Document
  3. Declaration of Ownership/Certification of Employment/Assignment of priority
  4. Assignment for Patent Right Transfer

专利申请流程

    • via Paris Convention : 12 months from the earliest priority date and 14 months at the latest.
    • via Nationalization of PCT : 31 months from earliest priority date.
    • Validation of European Patent in EPO member states: 3 months from the date of European patent grant.
  • Filing Language: Swedish/English

    via Paris Convention via Nationalization of PCT

    Necessary documents:

    1. Abstract
    2. Abstract Drawing
    3. Claim
    4. Specification
    5. Drawing

    Necessary documents:

    1. Abstract
    2. Abstract Drawing
    3. Claim
    4. Specification
    5. Drawing

    Attachments (if any)

    1. Sequence Listing (PDF format and TXT format)
    2. Certificate of Deposit of Microorganisms and its Swedish/English translation
    3. Certificate of Microbiological Survival and its Swedish/English translation
    4. Power of Attorney
    5. Certified Priority Document
    6. Declaration of Ownership/Certification of Employment/Assignment of priority
    7. Assignment for Patent Right Transfer
    8. Notification issued by CNIPA notify the applicant the application has passed through the security review

    Attachments (if any)

    1. WIPO Publication
    2. ISR/IPRP
    3. Entering the Swedish national phase 19/28/34/41 amended
    4. Sequence Listing (PDF format and TXT format)
    5. Certificate of Deposit of Microorganisms and its Swedish/English translation
    6. Certificate of Microbiological Survival and its Swedish/English translation
    7. Declaration of Ownership/Certification of Employment/Assignment of priority
    8. Assignment for Patent Right Transfer
    9. Power of Attorney
  • Filing Language: Swedish/English

    Necessary documents:

    1. Exterior Design Picture (Six Views)
    2. A Brief Description

    Attachments (if any):

    1. Power of Attorney
    2. Certified Priority Document
    3. Declaration of Ownership/Certification of Employment/Assignment of priority
    4. Assignment for Patent Right Transfer
  • If the design is disclosed by the designer or his representative within 12 months before the filing date, the design will not lose its novelty.

  • 5 years, renewable 4 times, 5 years each time, up to 25 years of protection.

  • PRV conducts formality examination and substantive examination of invention patent applications. The formality examination lasts for about 4 months, and the substantive examination does not need to be submitted by the applicant to start, and the examination is carried out automatically. After the actual examination is over, the applicant will receive the final granted notice.

  • Swedish Patent and Registration Office

    English: The Swedish Patent and Registraion Office (PRV)

    Website: www.prv.se

    Swedish Invention Patent Search: Swedish Patent Database, Search (prv.se)

  • Reinstatement of priority accepted on grounds of "due care".

    • via Paris Convention : 6 months from earliest priority date.
    • EU design: 6 months from the earliest priority date.
    • Hague Agreement route: 6 months from earliest priority date.
  • PRV only conducts formality examination on design patents. After the design is officially submitted to the PRV, no modification or addition of other designs is allowed. An applicant may request a deferment of publication for up to 6 months from the filing date/priority date, and this request must be made at the same time as the new application is filed.