Patent Application Encyclopedia

yes. Multiple designs may be included in one design application.

The novelty grace period is 6 months before the filing date/priority date.

no

• via Paris Convention : 12 months from earliest priority date.
• via Nationalization of PCT : 30 months from the earliest priority date.

IP Australia conducts formal and substantive examinations of patent applications for inventions. Patent applicants are required to submit a substantive examination request within 5 years from the filing date, or within 2 months after the official notification of submitting a request for examination (whichever expires earlier). If there are any problems in the examination, the patent applicant has 12 months to solve them. If the defects cannot be overcome, the patent application will be invalid. If no opposition occurs within the 3-month opposition period, the patent application will be granted.

yes. It is allowed to include multiple designs in one design application.

• via Paris Convention : 12 months from earliest priority date.
• via Nationalization of PCT : 20 months from the earliest priority date.
• Validation of European Patent in EPO member states: within 3 months from the date of granted of the European invention.

*Luxembourg is one of the only countries in the world that still retain Chapter I for 20 months to enter the national phase (the other is Tanzania). If it takes 30 months to enter the national phase, a request for international preliminary examination must be submitted.

no

ICPR conducts formality examination and substantive examination of utility model patent applications. A utility model must be novel, inventive and practical.

• via Paris Convention : 12 months from earliest priority date.
• via Nationalization of PCT : 31 months from earliest priority date.

The novelty grace period is 12 months before the filing date/priority date.

6-18 months

no

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

yes. Multiple designs may be included in one design.

20 years

yes. Multiple designs may be included in one design application.