- Trade marks, patents and designs applications can be filed electronically via our E-Filing System at https://efiling.ipd.gov.hk. To become our e-filer, please submit your application via https://efiling.ipd.gov.hk. For enquiry, please contact us at 2961 6820 or by email to enquiry@ipd.gov.hk.
- Notice of Acceptance of Electronic Service
For (1) intellectual property cases in the Court of First Instance of the High Court bearing the prefix ‘HCIP’ or ‘HCA’, and (2) civil appeal cases in the Court of Appeal of the High Court bearing the prefix ‘CACV’, the Registrar of Trade Marks, Registrar of Patents and Registrar of Designs (“Registrar”) hereby:
(a) consent to accept service of documents by electronic transmission, which documents include but are not limited to those required to be served on the Registrar under any of Orders 100, 103 and 122 of the Rules of the High Court (Cap. 4A); and
(b) designate the E-Filing System at https://efiling.ipd.gov.hk for accepting service.
The serving party must be a registered e-filer of the E-Filing System, and Form TC, PC or DC (as the case may be) must be used for serving documents by electronic transmission on the Registrar of Trade Marks, Registrar of Patents or Registrar of Designs respectively.
The Registrar hereby reserves the right to withdraw the above consent by filing and serving a Notice of Withdrawal of Consent in any particular case.
- B2B (system to system) E-Filing Service
- Brief Note about implementing the B2B interface, latest set of XSD Schemata, sample files and test.
- The XSD Schemata relating to some Trade Mark Forms will be further revised to cater for the application of the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks to Hong Kong. For further details, please contact us at 2961 8351 or by email to enquiry@ipd.gov.hk.
- Offline Signing Tool
- System Requirements for IPD's Online Services
- Combinations of popular Operating Systems and Browsers compatible with us:
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Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
Microsoft Windows 10 |
Mac OS X |
Linux |
iOS |
Android |
| Microsoft Edge 109.x |
Not
applicable |
Yes |
Not
applicable |
Not
applicable |
Not
applicable |
Not
applicable |
| Safari 16.x |
Not
applicable |
Not
applicable |
Yes |
Not
applicable |
Yes |
Not
applicable |
| Mozilla Firefox 112.x |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Google Chrome 109.x |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
E-Filing