Industrial samples
An industrial sample is defined by its appearance as an industrial or domestic production if it maintains art and design solution and is protected as a product.
Legal protection is provided to an industrial sample if the following new and original essential signs are maintained.
The industrial sample is recognized as original if its essential signs are obtained by the creative nature of features of a product. The signs defining aesthetic features of the product appearance belong to essential signs of an industrial sample: information expressiveness, rationality form, composition integrity, production perfection and trade stability appearance, and ergonomic features of the product: handling convenience of product, management convenience, easy usage.
The industrial sample is accepted as new if the whole essential signs are unknown from the data which have become public in the world before date of a prior industrial sample.
Industrial samples can be voluminous (models), plane (drawings) or in combination.
If the industrial sample corresponds to protectability criteria, then it is accepted and protected by law.
The followings aren't acceptable as patentable industrial samples:
- products supported by only exclusively technical function;
- architecture objects (with the exception of small architectural forms) industrial, hydraulic engineering and other stationary constructions;
- printed materials per se;
- objects of an unstable form out of liquid, gaseous, loose or similar substances;
- products contradicting public interests, humanity and morals principles.