Designs
A design is a protection that applies to a product’s external features, i.e. its shape, lines, contours, colors, texture, material or ornamentation. A design can be three-dimensional (the shape of a car, a mobile phone, a couch, a vase) or two-dimensional (drawing).
To obtain protection, a design should be new and have an individual character.
You have created the perfect design, now it is time for us to follow-through with our promise of excellence by protecting it through its entire lifecycle.
You have created the perfect design, now it is time for us to follow-through with our promise of excellence by protecting it through its entire lifecycle.
We conduct design-related registration and utility model searches, as well as relevant market research, to determine the distinctiveness of your industrial design and the appropriate IP rights to pursue.
Design rights can be both registered and unregistered. Because the nature and level of protection varies around the world, co-ordinated management of your design portfolio is critical.
We can help you through every step of the registration process, from advising on what can and can’t be protected, through to the filing and prosecution of the application.
Registering designs
The appearance of a product, the look and feel of it, is often unique and something worth protecting.
Requirements
- A Power of Attorney legalized up to the Egyptian Consulate.
- Four representations (photographs or drawings) of the design or model on good quality paper of size 21X33 cm.
- A legalized extract of the entry of the applicant company in the Commercial Register, or a legalized copy of the certificate of incorporation; which includes the name, address, nationality, legal status and profession or nature of business of the applicant.
- A certified copy of the priority document for a convention application. All documents must be available within three months from the filing date.
- A Power of Attorney signed by the assignee and legalized up to the Egyptian Consulate.
- An extract of the entry of the assignee company in the commercial register, or a certified copy of the certificate of incorporation legalized up to the Egyptian Consulate.
- A legalized deed of assignment including the transfer of the ownership of the establishment which produces the goods for which the trademark is registered.
- Name, address, nationality, legal status and profession or nature of business of the assignee.
- A Power of Attorney legalized up to the Egyptian Consulate.
- A certified certificate of the change of name or address. For design applications, the applicant company must submit the certificate of the change of name or address legalized up to the Egyptian Consulate.
- A legalized license agreement by the Egyptian Consulate.
- A Power of Attorney by the licensee and the licensor legalized up to the Egyptian Consulate.
- An extract of the entry of the licensee company in the commercial register, or a certified copy of the certificate of incorporation legalized up to the Egyptian Consulate.
- The name, address, nationality and profession or nature of business of the licensee. For design applications, the applicant company must submit an extract from the Commercial Register or the certificate of incorporation, legalized up to the Egyptian Consulate.
- Power of attorney signed and sealed by both parties, duly legalized by the Egyptian Consulate.
- Merger agreement document duly legalized by the Egyptian Consulate.
- Certified copy of the extract from the commercial register or certificate of incorporation duly legalized by the Egyptian Consulate.