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We offer the following services:
- patenting inventions and utility models (filling international applications for patents and utility models);
- Prior art search concerning novelty of an invention;
- registration of trademarks (including filling international applications for the international trademark registration);
- trade mark search;
- patenting of industrial designs (including filling international applications for the international registration of industrial designs);
- copyright registration (literary, musical and artistic works, software programs, databases);
- drafting of license agreements and other agreements concerning IP matters (transferring of rights);
- registration of Topographies of Integrated Circuits, Indication of Origin of Goods;
- protection of intellectual property rights in courts in cases concerning infringement of intellectual property rights;
Invention/Utility Models
In Ukraine it is possible to obtain two kinds of patents
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- a patent for an invention that is issued relying on the results of a qualification examination of patent application. The patent is granted for 20 years. An invention meets the patentability requirements provided that it is new, involves an inventive step and is industrially applicable.
- a patent for utility model that is issued relying on the results of formal examination. The patent is granted for 10 years. A utility model meets the patentability requirements provided that it is new and industrially applicable.
The object of an invention (utility model), to which the legal protection is granted, may be:
- a product (device, substance, microorganism strain, plant or animal cells culture etc.);
- a process (method) as well as the novel use of a known product or process.
Invention/Utility models (UM) |
means a result of intellectual activity of a human being in any field of technology;
a process (engineering) solution meeting patentability requirement . |
Inventor |
a person who has created the invention. |
Applicant |
a person (juridical or natural) who has filed an application for a patent (a utility model). |
Invention/Utility Model object |
a product (device, substance, microorganism strain, plant or animal cells culture etc.);
a process (method) as well as the novel use of a known product or process. |
An invention meets the Patentability Requirements if |
it is new, involves an inventive step and is industrially applicable |
A utility model meets the Patentability Requirements if |
it is new and is industrially applicable |
Patent rights scope |
is determined by the claims of invention (UM), based on the description of invention (UM) and corresponding drawings. |
Invention/utility model ownership |
is certified with a patent |
An invention patent term |
is 20 years counting from the filing date. |
An utility model patent term |
is 10 years counting from the filing date. |
For different stages of getting a patent for patent application the Official fees and our professional fees must be paid |
Industrial Design
Industrial Design |
a result of a creative activity of a man in the field of artistic designing. |
Applicant |
a person who has filed an application. |
Author |
a person who has created the industrial design. |
Conditions of Granting Legal Protection |
The legal protection is granted to an industrial design that does not contradict the public order, principles of humanity and morals, and complies with the patentability conditions. |
Conditions of Patentability of an Industrial Design |
An industrial design meets patentability conditions if it is new. |
The object of an industrial design may be
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the shape, picture, or coloration, or their combination, which define the appearance of an industrial product and are intended to satisfy aesthetic and ergonomic demands. |
The legal protection is not granted to:
objects of an unstable form of liquid, gaseous, free-flowing, or like substances, etc. |
objects of architecture (except small architectural forms), industrial, hydrotechnical, and other stationary structures;
printed products per se; |
The period of validity of a patent for an industrial design |
is of 10 years from the date of filing the application to the Office and may be extended by the Office at the request of the patent's owner.
The validity of a patent is terminated prematurely but no more than for 5 years. |
The scope of the legal protection granted |
is determined by an aggregate of substantial features of an industrial design, represented in the image (images) of the product |
The property right on an industrial design |
is certified by a patent. |
For different stages of getting a patent for patent application the Official fees and our professional fees must be paid
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Trademarks
Trademark (mark for goods and/or services) |
means a sign by which the goods and services of some persons differ from the goods and services of other persons |
The object of a mark may be |
any sign or any combination of signs such as words, including personal names, letters, numerals, figurative elements, colors and combinations of colors, as well as any combination of such signs. |
Ownership for a trademark is verified by |
a certificate of Ukraine of a mark for goods and services |
Applicant |
a person who has filed an application. |
Legal protection is afforded to |
a mark that is not contradictory to public policy, principles of humanity and ethics, and has no reasons for rejections of legal protection. |
The legal protection is granted to a mark that |
does not contradict the public order, humane and moral principles and is not subject to the refusal of the rights protection. |
“registered mark” means |
a mark for which the certificate has been granted. |
“application” means |
a package of documents required for granting a certificate. |
Legal protection cannot be afforded to marks representing |
state armorial bearings, flags, and other state symbols (emblems);
official names of States;
symbols and abbreviated or full names of international intergovernmental organizations;
official control, guarantee, or testing seals, stamps;
decorations and other honorary signs. |
For different stages of getting a patent for trademark application the Official fees and our professional fees must be paid |
Our address:
65 Sumskaya str. apt. 7,
Kharkov
61022
Ukraine
PO box 3120, Kharkiv, 61072 (UA)
Tel. (fax): +38 (057) 702-42-41, 340-17-07, +38 (050) 302-33-83
Tel.: +38 (057)
764-84-06
E-mail: krakhmalyova@mail.ru
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