Patent Application Encyclopedia

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• Licensing Fee: None.
• Annuity: The renewal fee is paid every 5 years. The renewal fee must be paid within 6 months before the last day of the month when the registration expires. The grace period for the penalty is 6 months, and the penalty must be paid at the same time.

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)

Inventors have a novelty grace period of 12 months after disclosure (including sale).

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

via Paris Convention : 12 months from earliest priority date.

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

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

The JPO conducts formality examination and substantive examination of the design patent application, and the substantive examination starts automatically, and the applicant does not need to submit a separate substantive examination request. JPO mainly examines the novelty and inventiveness of designs.

• (*Secret design: applicants can request that their design remain secret for 3 years from the filing date).

Colombia does not charge licensing official fees and annual fees

• Grant fee: It must be paid together with the granted announcement fee within one month from the receipt of the granted notice.
• Annuity: pay year by year from the first year of the application date, and should be paid before the last day of the month of the application date at the latest, not exceeding one patent year, and the annual fee can be paid within a grace period of 6 months if it is overdue, and paid at the same time 200% late fee.

20 years

via Paris Convention : 6 months from earliest priority date.

A 12-month novelty grace period applies if the inventor or his successor has communicated in any form, put the design into practice or made it public at national and international exhibitions.

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• Grant fee: Pay the granted fee within 60 days after granted.
• Annuity: The starting date of the annual fee is the granted date, and the first annual fee is the annual fee for the first to fifth years.

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

18-20 months