IP

The appearance of the industrial or handicraft product, parts of the product, get-up, packaging, typographic typefaces, graphic symbols can be filed as an Industrial Design. 

The applicant needs to make the priority claim when filing the application (ID -1). Priority date should be claimed within 6 months from the earlier filing.

The applicant needs to make the request for deferment of publication and fill out the deferment period in the application form (ID -1) when filing the application.

The Intellectual Property Department will verify industrial design applications and notify the applicant or representative to correct the application within 30 days. For the incorrect class indicated on the application, there is no need to pay the fee.

The term of the registered industrial design is given 5 years from the filing date of the registration of industrial design and may be renewal, for not more than two consecutive periods of five years each.

The industrial design representation shall be submitted in the form of drawings, photographs or other graphic representations. The two-dimensional industrial design may be represented by one view that fully discloses the industrial design or the three-dimensional industrial design     by several different views that fully disclose the industrial design. The several different views may contain up to front, back, left, right, top, bottom and perspective views of entire industrial design.

The applicant needs to file the application with industrial design application form (ID -1).

(1)    Filing with the electronic method specified by the Department; 
(2)    Filing to the Intellectual Property Department in personally;

Naypyitaw    - Office No. (52), Intellectual Property Department. 

Yangon    - No. (228/240), Kan Nar Street, Panpetan Township. 

Mandalay    - 35 Street, between 63 x 64 Street, Export Import Office, Chanayetharsan Township.