Renewal of Industrial Design in Bulgaria

We take care of the renewal of your registered industrial Design in Bulgaria. We monitor the duration of protection, we file the renewal request, pay the renewal fees and keep you updated about the upcoming renewal period of protection.

Upon registration of a Design in Bulgaria it shall be protected by a registered industrial Design for a period of five years from the date of filing the application (or the claimed prior application date). The right holder may have renewed the term of protection for one or more periods of five years each, up to a total term of 25 years from the date of filing.

The renewal of a registered Design shall be done by a request, provided that the renewal fee will be paid too.

The request for renewal shall be submitted within the last 6 months of the protection period and the renewal fee shall be paid within the same period.

Renewal shall have effect from the expiry of the registration.

A late renewal still may be done during the six months following the expiry date of the last protection period, subject to simultaneous payment of an additional late fee. If this last possibility for a late renewal was failed the industrial Design will become free to use in Bulgaria. But even than a request for restoration of your design may still be possible if you have good reasons for it.

Our offer relates to the renewal of a single Design registration in Bulgaria and includes the general maintenance fee but not the additional fee for late renewal payment in case of failing the general time for renewal.

It is possible to request a renewal of a multiple Design registration if your design was registered within the same application for the same Locarno class. You may order it here too with reduced fees.

Accepting the contract is subject to the circumstance that you will hire us early enough so that the request and the payment of the official fees can be arranged in time.