Common use of Examination of an application for an Clause in Contracts

Examination of an application for an. industrial design 1. A formal examination of the application for an industrial design received by the federal executive authority for intellectual property is carried out which includes checks on presence of the documents specified in clause 2 of Article 1377 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and its compliance with the established requirements. If the result of the formal examination is positive, then a substantive examination of an application for an industrial design is carried out, which includes: information search in relation to the claimed industrial design to determine the publicly available information, which shall be taken into account when examining the design patentability; examination of the claimed industrial design for the compliance with the requirements under Article 1231.1, clause 4 of Article 1349 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, and the patentability criteria under the first paragraph of clause 1, clause 5 of Article 1352 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation; examination of the claimed industrial design for the compliance with the patentability criteria under the second paragraph of clause 1 of Article 1352 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. An information search in relation to the objects specified in sub-clause 4 of clause 4 of Article 1349 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation shall not be carried out, and the federal executive authority on intellectual property notifies the applicant about it.