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Guide
You obtain any official documents needed.
Priority
If you have already registered your design in a Contracting State of the Paris Convention, you have six months (following the first filing date) in which to extend its protection to Monaco while continuing to benefit from the first filing date. Any applications filed by anyone else during that period will not be enforceable against you.
To raise a priority claim with the Office, you should send us an official copy of the first filing and indicate it expressly on the application form. If this copy is not in French, you must provide a translation.
NOTE: If you are not the party claiming priority, you will need to supply written permission from the first applicant, authorising you to make the claim.
Reciprocal arrangements
If you are not based in Monaco and are not a national of a Contracting State of the Paris Convention, your application will need to be accompanied by (original) proof that your country of origin also grants protection to Monegasque nationals on a reciprocal basis.
If this proof is drafted in a foreign language, a translation into French must be provided with it.
Power of attorney
If you need to be represented by an agent in order to complete the formalities involved in filing directly at the Office, the arrangement must be formally set down in a power of attorney.
If the application is being filed by more than one party jointly, they must appoint an agent to represent all of them, who may be one of them or a third party.
The Office will issue a receipt in exchange for a general power of attorney, and will then accept copies of the receipt in lieu of a general power of attorney.
Permission
If your industrial design includes imitations of symbols, coats of arms, mottoes or official insignia of the State or Princely Family, your application must include a document indicating that you have permission from the competent authorities (original is required).
If you are not the creator of the design, you will need to ensure that you have the necessary permission to register it before applying to the Office.