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Basic Facts

General Remarks

International registration of design is recorded under the provisions of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs of November 28, 1960 and the Genava Act of July 2, 1999.

Natural persons who are nationals of Republic of Serbia or who have their domicile in its territory, and legal entities which have a registered address or a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment in the territory of Republic of Serbia, desirous of protecting their design abroad, are obliged to first file an application in the country.

The Hague Agreement is an international registration system which offers the possibility of obtaing protection for industrial designs in a number of States and/or intergovernmental organizations (both referred to as Contracting Parties) by means of a single international application filed with the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Thus, under the Hague Agreement, a single international application replaces a whole series of applications which, otherwise, should have been effected with different national (or regional) Offices.

THE HAGUE AGREEMENT CONTRACTING PARTIES ARE:

European Union (27 countries) African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) 16 countries Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Belize Benelux Benin Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bulgaria Cote d Ivoire Croatia Democratic People`s Republic of Korea Denmark Egypt Estonia

France Gabon Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Kyrgyzstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Mali Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Namibia

Niger Norway Oman Poland Republic of Moldova Romania Sao Tome and Prencipe Senegal Serbia Singapore Slovenia Spain Suriname Switzerland Syrian Arab republic The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Turkey Ukraine