Requirements
Filing Requirements
Patent Applications
1. A Power of Attorney notarized and legalized by the Lebanese Consulate.
2. The name, address, nationality and occupation of the applicant(s) and inventor(s).
3. Three copies of the specifications and claims in any major language (especially English, French or Arabic), and three sets of the formal drawings, divided as follows: Title of the invention, summary of the invention, full description of the invention (detailing the methods to execute the invention and its industrial application, preferably with examples, statistics, etc.), claims, drawings and brief description of the drawings, a list of all enclosed documents.
4. A certified copy of the home certificate of registration or application which is required only for claiming convention priority. It can belatedly be filed within three months of the filing date.
Assignment Applications
1. A Power of Attorney notarized and legalized by the Lebanese Consulate.
2. A deed of assignment legalized up to the Lebanese Consulate.
3. The name, nationality, address and business of the assignee.
4. The number and date of the patent concerned.
Change of Name Applications
1. A Power of Attorney notarized and legalized by the Lebanese Consulate.
2. A certified copy of the change of name certificate issued by the home registry, or a notarized attestation legalized up to the Lebanese Consulate.
3. The number and date of the patent concerned.
Change of Address Applications
1. A Power of Attorney notarized and legalized by the Lebanese Consulate.
2. A notarized attestation legalized up to the Lebanese Consulate.
3. The number and date of the patent concerned.
Cancellation Applications
1. A Power of Attorney notarized and legalized by the Lebanese Consulate.
2. The name, nationality and address of the applicant.
3. The number and date of the patent concerned.