Renewal of Industrial Design in Norway

Here you can mandate us with the renewal of your registered industrial Design in Norway. We will renew your Design for another 5 years term of Design protection up to the total term of 25 years

We take care of the renewal of your registered Design in Norway. 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.

The maximum term of Design protection in Norway is 25 years. The protection starts with the day of filing of the application at the Norway intellectual property office or the claimed prior application date (priority date).

Upon registration of a design in Norway 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 the total term of 25 years but not for registered Design in regard to spare parts. Insofar the maximum period of protection is 5 years only.

Spare parts are products used for repairing complex products.

The renewal of a registered Design in Noway must be done by a formal request, provided that the renewal fee will be paid too. Both shall be done within the protection period. Renewal shall have effect from the expiry of the registration.

The request for renewal and the pyment of the fees for the renewal shall be submitted to the Norway intellectual property office within the last 12 months of the current protection period. It must have been done until the end of the 6th month after the expiry day of the current protection period. If this possibility for renewal was failed the design will become free to use in Norway.

Where renewal is done during the late renewal priod of the last 6 months a late renewal fee is requested additionally.

Our offer relates to the renewal of a single Design registration (for non spra parts) and includes the general renewal fee but not the additional fee for late renewal in case of failing the general time for renewal.

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.