Registrable / Not Registrable

Multiple Applications

Application of several designs may be combined in one application. However, this possibility is subject to the condition, except in cases of ornamentation, that the products in which the designs are intended to be incorporated or to which they are intended to be applied all belong to the same sub-class or to the same set or composition of items.

The multiple application is subject to payment of an additional. 

Not registrables

The followings are not registrable :

1.  Subject-matter not complying with the definition of a design or which otherwise cannot be protected as a design (see above, ”Definition”).

2. Designs not being novel or not having individual character

3. Designs being contrary to public policy or to general principles of morality.