Industrial Design Office Practices

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. CORRESPONDENCE

1.1  Delivery to the Commissioner

1.2  Transmission by electronic means

1.3  General rules

1.4  Third party correspondence

2. FILING DATE REQUIREMENTS

2.1  Name/address of applicant and if agent, name/address of agent

2.2  Title identifying the finished article

2.3  Description identifying features that constitute the design

2.4  Drawings and photographs

3. OTHER FILING INFORMATION

3.1  Filing date for a divisional

3.2  The fee as per item 1 of the Tariff of fees

3.3  Form set out in Schedule 1 of the Regulations

3.4  Priority

3.4.1  Canada's obligation under the Paris Convention

3.4.2  Requirements for claiming the benefit of Convention priority

3.4.3  Priority right in respect of only certain figures in the drawings

3.4.4  Priority right in the case of citation of a pending design

4. REQUEST FOR ACCELERATED EXAMINATION

5. CLASSIFICATION AND SEARCH

5.1  Classification

5.2  Search

6. EXAMINATION

6.1  Industrial design subject matter

6.2  Elements of an application

6.3  Prescribed fee

6.4  Prescribed form

6.4.1  Applicant name/address

6.4.2  Agent name/address

6.4.3  Canadian representative for service

6.4.4  Title identifying the article to which the design is applied

6.4.5  Description identifying the features that constitute the design

a)  Design applied to the entirety or a portion of the article

b)  Which visual features

c)  Highlighting important features

d)  Words or letters

e)  Variants

f)  Sets

g)  Figure reference

6.4.6  Examples of acceptable descriptions

6.5  Drawings or Photographs

6.5.1  General requirements

6.5.2  Requirements for drawings only

a.  Illustrating the design applied to the article

b.  Different types of views

6.5.3  Requirements for photographs only

6.6  Originality

6.7  Divisional and similar designs filed by the same applicant

6.7.1  More than one design

6.7.2  Subject matter for filing a divisional

6.7.3  Related designs

6.8  Amendment of an application

7. EXTENSION OF TIME

8. ABANDONMENT

9. REINSTATEMENT

10. WITHDRAWAL

11. DELAY OF REGISTRATION

12. REGISTRATION

13. AMENDMENT OF A DESIGN REGISTRATION

14. MAINTENANCE

15. ASSIGNMENTS AND OTHER AGREEMENTS

15.1  Recordal

15.2  Notice of Omission

Annex A – ORIGINALITY: GUIDING PRINCIPLES