Renewal of Design in Romania

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

We take care of the renewal of your registered industrial Design in Romania. 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 Romania it shall be protected by a registered industrial Design for a period of 10 years from the date of filing the application (or the claimed prior application date). The right holder may have maintained the term of protection for one periods of five years and later renewed is up to 3 times up to a total term of 25 years from the date of filing.

The renewal of a registered Design in Romania 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 months of the current 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 in Romania during the six months following the expiry date of the design registration, subject to simultaneous payment of an additional late renewal fee. If this last possibility for a late renewal was failed the Design will become free to use.

The applicant or the holder of the certificate of registration, who failed to observe a time limit regarding the procedures before OSIM for force majeure reasons, shall be granted an extension of the time limit if a substantiated request is presented within sixty days from the cessation of the reasons that prevented him from acting, but not later than one year after the expiry of the non-observed time limit.

Our offer relates to the renewal of a single Design in Romania and includes the general maintenance fee but not the additional fee for late renewal payment 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.