An industrial design shall be granted legal protection if it is new and original.

An industrial design shall be deemed to be new if the aggregate of its essential features reflected in the representations of the article and enumerated in the list of the essential features of the industrial design, are not known from the data made available to the public in the world before the date of priority of the industrial design.

In assessing the novelty of an industrial design all industrial designs patented in the Republic of Tajikistan shall be taken into consideration, as well as all applications for industrial designs filed by other persons in the Republic of Tajikistan (except for withdrawn) provided their earlier date of priority.