The provisions of Law No. 4 of 1962 and its amendment of 1999 allows for the registration of patents and industrial models in Kuwait. The validity of a patent of invention is twenty years as from the date of filing the application. The patent owner is required to submit an application for renewal of the patent during the last six (6) months upon expiry of every four (4) years. The validity of an industrial model registration is for ten years starting from the date of the registration application.
Currently , once an application is filed for the grant of a patent or an industrial model registration no further action is taken by the Kuwaiti Patent Registrar. The Kuwaiti Patent Office has not yet started the process of examining, publishing and granting of patents and designs. All patents and designs filed with the Kuwaiti Patent Office are practically in the application stage, although the relevant inventions and designs are protected currently for 15 years and 5 years respectively.
