Requirements
1. Drawings
2. Specification
Special Notes:
An application for a new design registration shall be filed by the person entitled thereto by submitting to the Patent Authority a written application with an oath.
Where the person entitled to file a registration application is an employer, assignee or heir, the name of the creator shall be indicated in the application, and the document evidencing the employment, assignment or inheritance shall be submitted along with the application.
An application for a design shall contain:
1. The title of the article applied to the new design
2. The name and domicile or residence of the creator.
3. The name or title, nationality, domicile or residence or office address
of the applicant; and the name of the applicant's representative if any.
4. Name and office address of patent agent, if appointed.
When filing a new design registration application, the date on which the government fee, the written application and the specification and drawings prescribed are submitted to the Patent Authority shall be taken as the filing date. For the specification and drawings submitted in a foreign language, the Chinese translations thereof shall be submitted within the time limit set by the Patent Authority; and the date on which the Chinese translations are submitted shall be taken as the filing date of the application, provided that the submission of Chinese translations has been made before an administrative measure is taken.
Specification
The specification shall contain a claim with the scope thereof clearly defined.
The specification and drawings of a new design shall contain:
1. The name of an article for the design.
2. The name and domicile or residence of the creator.
The name or title, nationality, domicile or residence or office address of the applicant; if a representative is appointed, the name of the representative;
If priority is claimed under the name of a foreign country in which the first patent application is filed, its application number and the filing date;
For an application which has already been filed in a foreign country, the application number and filing date in the said foreign country;
The description of new design;
A claim of the new design, stated in formal terms as "The new design for a (the title of the article for the new design) as shown";
A concise description of figures in drawings, including a clear annotation of any omission due to the identity or symmetry of figures.
Drawings
A drawing card, in duplicate, which appears either the perspective view or the most representative figure of the design, shall be submitted. Drawings of a new design shall be shown in a perspective view and six views (i.e. the front, rear, left side, right side, top and bottom), or in more than two perspective views. Auxiliary drawings may be allowed. However, if the new design is applied to a boundless plane in form, a plan and pattern element of design shall be submitted, the perspective view may be omitted.
Drawings shall be drawn in accordance with engineering drawing method and shall be clearly illustrated by ink drawings, photographs or computer printouts; if color is claimed, the color scheme showing the colors applied to the article shall be submitted with the statement of the industrial color guide codes of all colors, or with color cards.
Drawings shall be annotated with figure numbers; and if the disclosure in any figure is other than the subject matter of the new design, such figure shall be annotated as reference figure.