IP/N/1/BHR/D/1/Add.1  
 
16 September 2014  
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Council for Trade-Related Aspects 
of Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English/anglais/inglés  
  
  
MAIN DEDICATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS AND REGULATIONS 
NOTIFIED UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT 
K
INGDOM OF BAHRAIN  
 
Addendum 
 
The present document reproduces the text1 of Law No. (6) for the year 2006 on Industrial 
Drawings and Models, as notified by Bahrain on  10 June 2014 under Article 63.2 of the Agreement 
(see document IP/N/1/BHR/5/Rev.1). 
 
Conseil des aspects des droits de propriété 
intellectuelle qui touchent au commerce 
PRINCIPALES LOIS ET RÉGLEMENTATIONS CONSACRÉES À 
LA PROPRIÉTÉ INTELLECTUELLE NOTIFIÉES AU TITRE 
DE L'ARTICLE 63:2 DE L'ACCORD 
ROYAUME DE BAHREÏN  
Addendum 
 
Le présent document contient le texte1 de la Loi n° 6 de 2006 sur les dessins et modèles 
industriels, notifiée par Bahreïn le 10 juin 2014 au titre de l'article 63:2 de l'Accord (voir le document IP/N/1/BHR/5/Rev.1). 
 
Consejo de los Aspectos de los Derechos de Propiedad 
Intelectual relacionados con el Comercio 
PRINCIPALES LEYES Y REGLAMENTOS DEDICADOS A LA 
PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL NOTIFICADOS EN VIRTUD 
DEL PÁRRAFO 2 DEL ARTÍCULO 63 DEL ACUERDO 
REINO DE BAHREIN  
Addendum 
 
En el presente documento se reproduce el texto1 de la Ley Nº 6 de 2006 de dibujos y modelos 
industriales, notificado por Bahrein el 10 de junio de  2014 en virtud de lo dispuesto en el párrafo 2 
del artículo 63 del Acuerdo (véase el documento IP/N/1/BHR/5/Rev.1). 
 
                                               
1 In English only./En anglais seulement./En inglés solamente. IP/N/1/BHR/D/1/Add.1 
 
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Law No. (6) for the year 2006,  
on Industrial Drawings and Models 
 
  
We, Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, the King of the Kingdom of Bahrain  
 Having reviewed the constitution  
The Regulation of Industrial Patents, Designs and Trademarks for the year 1955 amended by the 
legislative decree No. 22 for the year 1977  
The Law of Civil and Commercial Proceedings enacte d by the legislative decree No. 12 for the year 
1971 and its amendments  
 
The Trade Law enacted by the legislative decr ee No. 7 for the year 1987 and its amendments 
 The legislative decree No 7 for the year 1994, which ratifies the document of the creation of the 
World Trade Organization 
  
The legislative decree No 31 for the year 1996 a pproving the Kingdom's accession to the Paris 
Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property  
The Civil Law enacted by the legislative law No 19 for the year 2001 
 The Criminal Procedures Law enacted by the legislative decree No 46 for the year 2002  
The legislative decree No. 1 for the year 1995 on th e Kingdom's accession to the Convention of the 
Creation of the Word Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)  
the Shura Council and the House of Representatives have approved the following law which we 
have endorsed and enacted:  IP/N/1/BHR/D/1/Add.1 
 
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Chapter 1 
General Provisions 
 
Article (1) 
 
Any arrangement of lines and colors and any colored or non colored three dimensional shape shall 
be deemed as an industrial drawing or model. 
  
Article (2) 
 
a. The industrial drawing or model, after being registered, shall enjoy the protection 
determined in this law and shall be registered under the fulfilment of the following 
terms:  
  1. If filed independently and if novel. 
 
 2. If usable in industry or handicrafts and if distinctively appears as an industrial or 
craftwork product. 
 
  3. If not disclosed to the public whether  in Bahrain or abroad in any way including 
   its use or publication preceding  the date of filing the registration application or    the priority date of the registration application (if any).   
 
b. Excluded from the term of novelty  stipulated in item (1) of the previous clause, the 
industrial drawing or model shall not lose the quality of novelty if it is disclosed to the 
public in any way after filing its registration application to a member in the World 
Trade Organization, a member state in the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, a country that treats the kingdom in like manner, or if the disclosure took place due to an evident ab use or unlawful deed by others, all the 
above in a period that does not exceed six months preceding the date of filing the 
registration application in the Kingdom or the priority date of the registration application (if any). The implementing regulation shall determine the procedures of 
enjoying the priority right.  
 
 
Article (3) 
 
The following shall not be registered as an industrial drawing or model:  
1. The industrial drawing or model which usually requires the technical or professional 
considerations of the product.   
 
2. The drawing or the model which violates the public law or the rules of conduct. 
 
3. The drawing or the model which includes religious symbols, or seals, or flags of the 
Kingdom or other countries. 
 
4. The drawing or the model which is identical or similar to a registered trademark or a 
well-known mark. 
 
 
Article (4) 
 
The protection provisions provided for in this law shall not be in breach of any other rights related to the industrial drawings and models, whether originating from the law or the international 
agreements and conventions in which the Kingdom constitutes a party. 
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  Article (5) 
 
The competent authority at The Ministry of Indu stry and Commerce shall set up a register called 
"The Industrial Drawings and Models register" in which shall be recorded the industrial drawings 
and models, all details pertaining thereto and all actions affected thereupon in accordance with the 
provisions of this law, its implementing regulation and the decisions issued for its implementation.   
 
Article (6) 
 
Without prejudice to the applicable provisions of the international conventions in The Kingdom of 
Bahrain, any natural or legal person shall be entitled to file an industrial drawing or models 
application in line with the provisions of this law, provided being one of the Kingdom's citizens or being a foreigner affiliated with a member in the World Trade Organization, with any of the 
member states in  the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, or with any 
country that treats the Kingdom in like manner, or if this person possesses a real and effective industrial or commercial entity in the territory of that member or country.  
 
 
Article (7) 
 
In the case an industrial drawing or model registration application was filed to a member in the 
World Trade Organization, to a member state in  the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, or to a country that treats the Kingdom in like manner, the applicant or the 
one who has acquired the rights thereof may within a period of six months following the date of 
filing that registration application abroad, may file an application for the same industrial drawing or model, subject to the conditions, requirements and procedures stipulated by this law. In this case, 
the first date of filing the application shall be deemed as a basis for the priority right. 
  
Article (8) 
 
The rights of an industrial drawing or model sha ll be granted to the inventor or the one who has 
acquired the rights thereof.  Should the invention be a result of joint efforts of a number of 
persons, the ownership of the industrial drawin g or model shall be equally assigned to them, 
unless otherwise agreed.  He shall not be considered as a participant in the invention that whose role was confined to the mere implementation thereof.  
 
Should there be more than one applicant for the industrial drawing or model, each independent 
form the other, the right to the industrial drawing or model shall be given to the first one to apply.  
 
 
Article (9) 
 
Without prejudice to the provision of Article (631) of the Civil Law, the ownership of the industrial 
drawing or model shall be assigned to the employer if the invention was the result of a contract or a commitment for exertion of inventive faculty.   
 
 
Article (10) 
 
Should a worker –not entrusted with an invention activity by virtue of the employment contract- 
create an industrial drawing or model relevant to  the activity of the employer using expertise, 
documents, tools, or raw materials put under the disposal of the same worker, belonging to the 
employer, he shall, directly after declaring the in dustrial drawing or model registration decision, 
notify the employer of that effect in writing accompanied with a non-enveloped acknowledgment of 
receipt. The employer may choose within a period of three months of receiving the notification 
either to exploit the industrial drawing or model or  to purchase the acquired rights thereof, either 
of which action shall be in return of a fair remuneration.   IP/N/1/BHR/D/1/Add.1 
 
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  After the elapse of the period specified in the prev ious clause, the employer's right of choice shall 
be abrogated without declaring his intentions to the employee in writing accompanied with a non-enveloped acknowledgment of receipt.  
The provisions provided for in this article and in the previous article shall apply to civil magistrates 
in the Kingdom and those who are in similar status.   
 
Article (11) 
 
Where an application for an industrial drawing or model is filed by an inventor within one year of 
leaving his job for a public or private firm, the application shall be construed as if the same were in 
service, in which case the inventor and the empl oyer shall be entitled to the all the rights 
prescribed in the two aforementioned articles as applicable. 
 
 
Article (12) 
 
The protection as per this law entitles the proprietor of the  industrial drawing or model right to ban 
others from the manufacturing, selling, or importing of products which take the form of this industrial drawing or model, which include it, or which are not fundamentally different from it, if 
these products were intended for commercial purposes.     
 
   
Article (13) 
 
The term of protection for the  industrial drawing or model shall be ten years as of the date of filing 
the registration application in the Kingdom. If the proprietor files a renewal application during the 
last year of the period, the protection shall be renewed for further five years. Though, the 
proprietor may file a renewal application during the six months following the original period expiry 
date. Filing the renewal protection application shall be done in the manner indicated in the 
implementing regulation.  
 
 
Article (14) 
 
A fee upon filing an industrial drawing or model shall fall due.  Also, an  annual incremental fee 
shall fall due as of the beginning of the second ye ar of declaring the registration decision until the 
end of the legally specified period of protecting the  industrial drawing or model. An additional fee 
shall fall due should there be a delay in settling the annual fee for a period that exceeds six 
months.   
 IP/N/1/BHR/D/1/Add.1 
 
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Chapter 2 
Registration of the industrial drawing or model 
 
Article (15) 
 
A registration application for the industrial drawing or model shall be filed by the inventor or his 
successor in title at the competent authority at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce on a special form designed for this purpose in accordance with the provisions prescribed by this law and the requirements, conditions and procedures defined by  the implementing regulation.  The application 
may include several drawings or models no more than fifty provided being a homogeneous unit as 
a whole. In all cases, the applicant adheres to providing the data concerning the applications previously filed abroad by him in terms of the same industrial drawing or model, what is relevant 
to its subject matter, and the decisions of deciding on these applications.  
  
Article (16) 
 
The industrial drawing or model applicant may, at any time before the issuance of the registration 
decision, withdraw his application or correct any material mistakes in the application and its 
enclosures, subject to the procedures prescr ibed by the implementing regulation.    
  
Article (17) 
 a. The competent authority at the Ministry of  Industry and Commerce shall examine the 
industrial drawing or model registration application and its enclosures to ensure that the 
application fulfils the required formal requirements specified by the implementing regulation. This authority may ask for performing amendments upon the application, as it deems necessary, and fulfilling what it deems necessary to be decided on in terms of the application. 
 
b. The competent authority at the Ministry of In dustry and Commerce shall issue a decision of 
accepting the industrial drawing or model registration application within sixty days following the 
fulfilment of the prerequisites indicated in the prev ious clause. If the decision was to refuse the 
industrial drawing or model registration application,  this decision must be justified, and shall be 
notified to the applicant as per a receipt voucher without an envelope within thirty days of issuing 
the decision. 
  
Article (18) 
 
The decision of accepting the industrial drawing or  model registration application shall be declared 
in the manner indicated in the implementing re gulation. The concerned party, right after the 
registration completion, shall be granted an official document stating the industrial drawing or 
model registration. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce seal shall be affixed on this document 
according to the form prepared by the Ministry for this purpose. 
 
 
Article (19) 
 
The competent authority at the Ministry of Indu stry and Commerce, may at any time and of its 
own motion or upon request of an interested pe rson issue an appropriate decision to add any 
detail to the industrial drawings or models register that may have been ignored, or to omit any 
detail that is non-compatible with reality or that has been unfairly entered, a notice of which shall 
be published, subject to the rules, procedur es and manner prescribed by the implementing 
regulation. 
 
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  Chapter 3 
Industrial drawing or model assignment, licensing for  
exploitation, mortgage and seizure 
 
Article (20) 
 
The ownership of an industrial drawing or model ma y be transferred partly or fully, with or without 
compensation including inheritance.  It may also be licensed for exploitation and may be 
mortgaged and may be decided on in terms of the utilization thereof.  The industrial drawing or model assignment, mortgage or utilization determination thereof shall 
not constitute an argument against others before the same being recorded in the industrial 
drawings and models register and the publicat ion thereof in the manner prescribed by the 
implementing regulation. 
 
 
Article (21) 
 
An industrial drawing or model may be seized in accordance with the rules of seizing the debtor's movables or garnishment as applicable.  The Comp etent Authority at the Ministry of Industry and 
Commerce shall be exempted from provisions relate d to the creditor's acknowledgment of the debt 
he owes the debtor.  The creditor shall declar e for the Competent Authority the seizure and the 
auction bidding minutes to have the same recorded in the Register and neither of these shall constitute an argument vis-à-vis third parties except after they are duly recorded in the manner 
defined by the implementing regulation.  Fees sh all be imposed for recording such entries in the 
register.  IP/N/1/BHR/D/1/Add.1 
 
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Chapter 4 
Termination and abrogation of industrial drawing or model rights 
 
Article (22) 
 
a. The rights accruing from the industrial drawing or model shall be terminated in the 
following cases: 
   1. lapse of the period of protection prescribed in article (13) of this law. 
 
2. the abandonment of the proprietor of his rights in the industrial drawing or 
model provided that this abandonment shall not prejudice the rights of others. 
 
 3. abstention for a period more than one year from paying the prescribed due fees 
 in violation of the provisions of Article (14) of this law despite receiving a notice 
 to that effect in the form of a registered letter accompanied with non-enveloped 
 acknowledgment to pay the due fees  on the time prescribed by the 
 implementing regulation. 
 
b. the issuance of a final ruling concerning the abrogation of the industrial drawing or 
model registration in accordance with the provisions of Article (23) of this law.  
 
c. There shall be recorded in the Industri al Drawings and Models register all the 
industrial drawings and models whose rights lapsed and those abrogated or cancelled,  and a notice thereof shall be published in the manner prescribed by the implementing 
regulation. 
  
Article (23) 
 
The competent authority at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce may at any time, and of its own motion or upon request of an interested person, issue an appropriate decision to cancel the 
industrial drawing or model registration should it is proven that the provisions of this law have 
been violated, subject to the rules, procedur es and manner prescribed by the implementing 
regulation. A fee shall be due for the application filed as per this article.  
 IP/N/1/BHR/D/1/Add.1 
 
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Chapter 5 
Miscellaneous Provisions 
 
Article (24) 
 
Temporary protection shall be given to the industrial drawings and models that satisfy the 
requirements of registration in this law while being displayed in national or international exhibitions which shall be defined by a decision by the Minister of Industry and Commerce. This 
protection shall be subject to the rules, proced ures and manner prescribed by the implementing 
regulation. 
   
Article (25) 
 
Any interested person may view the Industrial Drawings or Models Register and get extracts, 
drawings or data therefrom subject to the ru les, procedures and manner prescribed by the 
implementing regulation. A fee shall be due for viewing this register and for getting extracts, 
drawings or data therefrom.  
 
Article (26) 
 
Any concerned person may appeal in writing to the Minister of Industry and Commerce against any 
decision issued according to the provisions of this law within thirty days as of being aware of the decision. 
 
The appeal shall be decided on. The concerned pe rson shall be informed of that by means of 
writing within sixty days of the date of his appeal.  The petitioner may appeal the rejection decision before the Civil Supreme Court within sixty days of being informed of the rejection of his 
appeal or the lapse of the date specified in the previous clause for deciding it without notification. 
 The appeal before court shall not be except before  raising an appeal against the decision and the 
issuance of decision abrogating the appeal, or the lapse of the date specified for deciding it without 
notification.  
 
Article (27) 
 
A decision shall be issued by the Minister of Industry and Commerce after the approval of the 
Cabinet to stipulate the categories of fees prescrib ed in this law and the rules, rates of increase 
and decrease and exemption thereof.   
 
Article (28) 
 
The employees appointed by the Mi nister of Industry and Commerce to verify the application of 
the provisions of this law and the decisions issued  for the implementation thereof shall have access 
to relevant stores.  The employees duly authorized by the Minister of Justice in agreement with the 
Minister of Industry and Commerce shall have the capacity of Judicial Control Commissioners 
concerning the offenses taking place within their own jurisdiction and that pertain to their 
functions.  The written minutes concerning these offenses shall be transferred to the Attorney General by virtue of a decision by the Minister of Industry and Commerce or the one he delegates 
for this purpose. 
  
Article (29) 
 
a. In the case of infringement or to prevent threats of infringement on any of the rights 
prescribed by this law, the right proprietor may re quest an order in a petition from the chief of the IP/N/1/BHR/D/1/Add.1 
 
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  court competent with the dispute source to take one preventive measure or more as appropriate 
including the following:  
1- making a detailed description of the goods –including the imported ones upon 
importation thereof-, materials, machinery and equipment used or that have been 
used in the infringement act and keeping the pertinent evidence. 
 
2- Effecting precautious seizure on the items mentioned hereinabove.  
 
3- Stoppage of infringement. 
 
b. The petition shall be accompanied with suffici ent evidence proving that the applicant is the 
right proprietor and that the said right is subject or vulnerable to infringement.  The chief of the court may request the applicant to submit necessary information to help the competent authority 
to carry out the precautious measure in identifying the products, materials, machinery or tools in 
question.  
c. The chief of the court, when necessary, may issue the aforementioned order on an urgent 
basis –without summoning the other party- should there be a likelihood that any delay in issuing the order would lead to an inescapable damage on th e part of the adjudicator or that it would lead 
to the destruction of the evidence- provided that  the adjudicated party shall be informed of the 
decision upon issuance thereof. 
 
d. The issued order for taking any of the aforementioned measures may include delegating one 
expert or more to assist the execution of the or der or impose the deposit of the adjudicator of a 
banking or monetary guarantee appropriate to compensate for any damage that may unlawfully result out of this measure.   
 
e. The adjudicated may appeal the decision before the competent authority within the ten days 
following the issuance of the decision or from the date of notifying him, as applicable, in the case of which the court may support the decision or abrogate it wholly or partially. 
 
f. The lawsuit concerning the dispute source shall be raised within fifteen days as of the date 
of issuance of the order or otherwise the effects of the taken measure shall be rendered void and 
null. 
  
Article (30) 
 
Without detriment to any severe punishment prescrib ed by another law, he shall be punished with 
imprisonment of no less than three months and no more than a year or with a fine of no less than 
five hundred Dinars and no more than two thousand Dinars or with both penalties the person who: 
 a. Exploited, for a commercial purpose, an industrial drawing or model, which has been 
registered in accordance with the provisions of this law, or which is not fundamentally different 
from it.  
b. sold, displayed for selling, imported from abroad or acquired for commercial purposes a 
products which take the form of an industrial draw ing or model, registered in accordance with the 
provisions of this law, or which is not fundamentally different from it.  
The court may order to publish the rule in a daily newspaper for one time or more at the cost of 
the adjudicated.  
In the case of repetition of the offense, the im prisonment term shall be no less than six months 
and no more than two years, and the fine no less than one thousand Dinars and no more than four thousand Dinars or with one of the two penalties with the closure of the commercial store or 
project or stopping of the activity –as applicable- for a period of no less than fifteen days and no 
more than six months.  The ruling thereof shall be published one time or more in a daily newspaper at the expense of the adjudicated. 
 IP/N/1/BHR/D/1/Add.1 
 
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  The court may, when a conviction ruling is issued, order to confiscate or destroy the things 
accruing from the offence along with the tools and equipment used for that purpose. It may, when ruling acquaintance, order to confiscate or destroy the things mentioned hereinabove should it have resulted in injuries or have been used to in fringe any of the rights provided for in this law. 
 
 
Article (31) 
 
The Minister of Industry and Commerce shall issu e the implementing regulation and the necessary 
decisions to implement the provisions of this law within six months of following the application of this law's provisions. 
 
 
Article (32) 
 
The Ministers, each in his own capacity, shall implement this law, which shall come into effect as of the next day following the publicatio n thereof in the Official Gazette. 
 
   
 
  
 
  
 
   
 
  
 
  
 
   
 
  
 
The King of the Kingdom of Bahrain Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa 
 
 Issued at Al Rifa' Palace  
1
st Rabi' Al Akhir, 1427 A.H 
29th April, 2006 
 
 
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