Designs Application - Filing requirements

The application for registration of an industrial design shall contain the following:

a) applicant's identification data; b) number of industrial designs for which protection is claimed; c) indication of the products which incorporate the industrial design, if appropriate; d) description of the novel characteristic elements of the industrial design for which protection is claimed, as they appear in the filed graphic representations; e) the authors' names or a statement on the applicant's responsibility that the authors renounced to their right of being mentioned in the application and/or in the industrial design publications;  f) graphic representations of the industrial design in three copies.

The application for the registration containing the above mentioned requirements, drawn up in Romanian, constitute the regular national filing.

The application for registration may further contain, if appropriate, other elements which do not condition the regular filing date:

a) identification data of the authorized representative, if designated in the application for registration; b) if the priority of an earlier application is claimed, a declaration of claiming the priority shall be included in the request and the indication of the state and the date of earlier filing too. ( The priorities shall be recognized, if claimed at the time of filing the application, and if attested by the priority documents, within three months from the date of filing the application). c) request for postponing the publication; d) power of attorney for representation before OSIM; e) statement indicating the information which, according to the applicant's knowledge, allows to prove the fulfillment of the conditions to grant the protection of the industrial design whose registration is claimed.