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FILING REQUIREMENTS

Below is the summary of Filing Requirements for Patents and Trademarks. This is for your references only. To complete the application you will need to assemble the following information. This information must be supplied for your application to be submitted. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

PATENTS

 1. Names, addresses and contact details for all patent applicants;

 2. Name of the invention and the names of all of the actual inventors;

 3. Related application numbers and application dates if you are entitled to file the application as a  Divisional application, claim priority on the basis of one or more associated provisional applications or claim priority from an earlier basic application;

 4.Deposit number(s), deposit date(s) and institution(s) concerned if the application relates to a     Micro-organism and relies on Section 6 of the Patents Act;

 5. Application or patent number of the main invention if this application is for a Patent of Addition;

 6. Specification description (in English), which can be supplied to us as text typed or pasted into the form (up to a limit of 3500 characters for each area) or as one or more files attached to the application. Accepted file types are Text (.txt), Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf), JPEG (.jpg) and TIFF (.tif);

 7. No power of attorney or legalization of documents is needed.

 8.Other information you will be asked for is optional at this stage. However, it must eventually be supplied for your application to be processed. This information includes:

 9.Specification claims and specification abstract, which can be supplied to us as text      typed or pasted into the form or as one or more files attached to the application;

 10.Specification drawings, as one or more files attached to the application.

TRADEMARKS

 1. Documents required

 2.Names, addresses and contact details of applicant;

 3.Representation of the trademark; an electronic file type of JPEG (.jpg) and TIFF   (.tif);

 4.Nomination of the relevant classes in International classification;

 5.Description of the goods and/or services to which it will apply;

 6.A translation of any part of your mark that is another language;

 7.No power of attorney or legalization of documents is needed;

II.    Classification:

        1.The International Classification of Goods and Services

        2.Multi-class applications are allowed.

III.   Validity:  Valid for 10 years from the date of registration

IV.   Grant of Certificate:  Approximately 6-12 months