yes
3 years
no
Yes (reason: due care), a request for restoration of rights can be filed within 2 months from the date of removal of the obstacle
Yes (reason: due care), a request for restoration of rights can be filed within 2 months from the date of removal of the obstacle
yes
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
Yes (reason: due care), a request for restoration of rights can be filed within 2 months from the date of removal of the obstacle
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.
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.
Utility models in Hungary are subject to formal and substantive examinations, but not novelty and inventive steps.