see also: Filing requirements for Ukraine

A certificate for IMC layout designs shall be valid within 10 years from the date of filing an application for registration with the Patent Office, or from the first commercial exploitation, provided that an application shall be filed with the Patent Office within 2 years from the first commercial exploitation.

An IMC layout design meets the requirements of patentability if it is original.

An application shall be made out in Ukrainian language and shall contain the following:

request for registration of an IMC layout design

documents identifying an IMC layout design.

The examination procedure consists of formal and substantive examination.

A certificate is granted within 1 month after an IMC layout design has been registered in the State Register.

A notice of opposition to the registration of an IMC layout design may be given to the Board of Appeals within 6 months from the date of publication of the mentioning of the certificate granting.

Filing requirements for Ukraine.

An order letter with an information sheet containing:

1.

Applicant's name, citizenship and address/domicile

2.

Inventor's name, citizenship and address/domicile

3.

Convention priority date

Documents identifying an IMC layout design

In case of non-use of an IMC layout design before the date of filing an application, a full set of documents depicting every layer the IMC layout design (masks, drawing of arranged integrated circuits, or drawings of each layer of an IMC layout design, photographs of each layer of an IMC layout design embodied in the integrated circuit)

In case of use of an IMC layout design prior to the date of filing an application, specimens of an integrated circuit which is an embodiment of an IMC layout design as it was exploited for the commercial purposes (four pieces)

Abstract

Document confirming the date of the first commercial exploitation of an IMC layout design

Power of attorney

Payment order for filing