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Before filing, a design search checks whether the visual appearance of your product is genuinely new against IMPI's Designs register and other published designs. Our team at Brealant gives you a clear picture before you invest in filing, since Mexico examines designs substantively before grant.
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What a Design Search Involves
A design search reviews IMPI's registered and published industrial designs, plus other publicly available design disclosures, to identify designs identical or similar in overall visual impression to yours.
Purpose and Function of a Design Search
Under the Ley Federal de Protección a la Propiedad Industrial, a registrable design (dibujo or modelo industrial) must be new. Because IMPI conducts automatic substantive examination on novelty, a search lets you anticipate objections before you file.
Protecting Your Filing Strategy
Because Mexico offers a 12-month grace period for the designer's own prior disclosure, a search also helps confirm whether earlier disclosures of your own design remain within that window.
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Contact
Reach out to Brealant, your trusted design agent in Mexico, to discuss your product.
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Search
We search IMPI's Designs register and relevant published sources.
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Quote
Receive a service quote scoped to the number of design views and product category.
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Pay
Proceed with secure payment for the selected search service.
File
We compare overall visual impression against what's found, as IMPI's examiners would.
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Wait
We finalise the clearance report and filing recommendation.
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Response
You receive your search report with a clear filing recommendation.
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In Mexico, a registrable design must not be identical or similar in overall visual impression to a design already publicly disclosed before the filing (or priority) date, subject to a 12-month grace period for the designer's own disclosure. A search against IMPI's register and other public sources is the clearest way to check this before you file.
Because IMPI conducts automatic substantive examination on novelty for every design application, an unsearched filing runs a real risk of an office action, or even refusal, if a similar design is already on the register. Brealant's search protects your filing budget and timeline before that happens.
A search significantly reduces risk, but it has real limits worth understanding
No Absolute Guarantee
No search, however thorough, can guarantee IMPI's own substantive examination won't raise an objection.
Own Prior Disclosure
Publishing or selling your own design before filing can still affect novelty outside Mexico's 12-month grace period.
Unpublished Applications
Very recently filed designs may not yet be visible on the public register at the time of search.
Product Specification Matters
Since the design must specify the product it applies to, a search is only as accurate as the product category defined.
Foreign Rights
A Mexican search does not clear your design for registration in other countries.
Brealant explains these limits clearly in every search report, so you know exactly what comfort the search gives you.
A thorough Mexican design search reviews multiple sources to protect your filing decision. Our search covers
IMPI's Designs Register
Registered and recently published industrial designs (dibujos y modelos industriales) on file with IMPI.
Published Disclosures
Other publicly available design disclosures, including prior product releases.
Overall Visual Impression
Comparison of shape, configuration, pattern, and ornamentation against what's found.
Multiple Product Views
All representations you intend to file, assessed together as the overall design.
Partnering with Brealant means every relevant source is checked before you commit to filing with IMPI.
A design search typically involves
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Briefing
You provide images or drawings of the product's design features.
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Searching
We search IMPI's Designs register and relevant published sources.
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Comparison
We assess overall visual impression against what's found, as IMPI's examiners would.
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Reporting
You receive a clearance report with a filing recommendation.
A standard Mexican design search and clearance report is typically completed within 3 to 7 business days, depending on the product category.
Search costs are modest compared to the cost of an objection during substantive examination
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Charged as a fixed professional fee, in Mexican pesos, scoped to the number of design views and the product category.
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A written comparison and filing recommendation, included in the search fee.
Brealant explains these limits clearly in every search report, so you know exactly what comfort the search gives you.
If the search is clear, Brealant can move straight into preparing your design application. If it reveals risk, we'll advise on how to adjust the design, the product specification, or the filing strategy to keep your project moving forward.
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No, but it substantially reduces the risk of an office action once IMPI's automatic substantive examination reviews your design for novelty.
The design must not be identical or similar in overall visual impression to a design already publicly disclosed anywhere before the filing (or priority) date, subject to a 12-month grace period for the designer's own disclosure.
Yes, Brealant reviews all representations you intend to file to check the overall design.
It can, if it falls outside Mexico's 12-month grace period — timing matters, and we'll flag this during the search.
A standard search and clearance report is typically completed within 3 to 7 business days, depending on the product category.
Yes, requesting a search doesn't require a Mexican address — only filing the application itself requires a locally domiciled agent, a role Brealant fulfils.
Brealant offers a preliminary check with a fixed fee for the full clearance report, quoted before you commit.
Yes, we search prior art relevant to both two-dimensional designs (dibujos) and three-dimensional designs (modelos), depending on your product.
We'll advise whether your design can still be distinguished in overall visual impression, or whether the filing strategy needs to change.
Yes, since novelty is assessed against worldwide disclosure, we check relevant international sources alongside IMPI's records.
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