Hungarian Intellectual Property Office

Course of the procedure for the grant of utility model protection

In order to start the granting procedure, a request, the description of the model and other relating annexes shall be filed to the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office, and the filing fee specified in special legislation shall be paid.

The application shall be drawn up according to detailed formal rules specified in separate legislation (Hungarian only).

The Hungarian Intellectual Property Office carries out formal and substantive examinations in the course of the procedure, but the examination does not cover the examination of the novelty and the existence of the inventive step. During the procedure, the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office only presumes the novelty of the model and the fact that the model involves an inventive step, and if the application meets other requirements prescribed by the Law, it grants protection for the model. For maintaining the model protection, an administrative service fee shall be payable every year.

Details of the procedure for the grant of utility model protection are presented in the guide, and the legal practice relating to the procedure is presented in the methodological guide.