Industrial Design Registration Fees in India

By Intepat Team

Published on 3 July 2016

3 min read

Design Registration Cost in India

Registering a design in India does not have to be through physical filing. Since 09.03.2015 E-filing facility has been introduced for Designs as well. The e-filing process is the same as the process described in our blog for the E-filing of patents. The added advantage is that if you have a digital signature in place for patent e-filings, you can also use the same signature for design e-filing. This website can be accessed to start the e-filing of your design at E-filing of Design:

Now, let us look at India’s Industrial Design fee structure. The fee structure now is by the Design (Amendment) Rules, 2014. For the first time, the 2014 Amendment (effective from 30.12.2014) introduced two categories of applicants for Design registration.

Natural Persons and Other than Natural Persons. The latter category is further subdivided into Small Entity and Others except for Small Entity. Before the Amendment, the same fees applied to all categories of Applicants. With the Amendment in place, each listed category has to pay a different amount for the design registration process. (Please refer to the below Table for the exact Fee structure in India)

The fee for a small entity has been fixed between the fees for a natural person and all persons other than a natural person (except for a small entity).

This, in effect, means a 50% reduction in the fee for a small entity (as opposed to a large entity). The Amendment has also introduced a new Form. Form-24. This Form must be submitted along with a new Application if an Applicant wants to claim a Small Entity status. It is important to note that Form-24 has to be filed at least once against the application number for subsequent documents for which a fee has been prescribed.

Sl. No.	On What Payable	Design Registration Fee in India Statutory Fee (INR)
		*Natural person*	*Small Entity*	*Large Entity*
1.	Application for Registration	1000	2000	4000
2.	Claim to proceed as an Applicant or joint-applicant	500	1000	2000
3.	Inspection of a Registered Design	500	1000	2000
4.	Request for Information of Design when Registration No. is given	500	1000	2000
5.	Request for Information of Design when Registration No. is not given	1000	2000	4000
6.	Notice of intended exhibition or Publication of an unregistered Design	500	1000	2000
7.	Application for Registration of a document in the Register of a Design – in respect one design	500	1000	2000
	For each additional design	200	400	800
8	Application for entry of name of proprietor or part-proprietor in the Register of Design – in respect one design	500	1000	2000
	For each additional design	200	400	800
9.	Request for Correction of Clerical Error	500	1000	2000
10.	Application for Certified copy of Registered Design	500	1000	2000
11.	Application for Rectification of Register of Design	500	1000	2000
12.	Application for Extension of time for filling Priority Document	200 (per month)	400 (per month)	800 (per month)
13.	Notice of Opposition	100	200	400
14.	Petition for Amendment of Document	500	1000	2000
15.	Inspection of Register of Design	250	500	1000
16.	Application for renewal of Design	2000	4000	8000
17.	Application for Restoration of lapsed Design	1000	2000	4000
18.	Petition to cancel Registration of Design	1500	3000	6000