PATENTS
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UTILITY MODELS
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TRADE MARKS
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INDUSTRIAL
DESIGNS
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COPYRIGHT
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TRADE
SECRETS
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Technical Inventions:
- New;
- Inventive step;
- Industrial application.
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Technical inventions:
- New;
- lower level of inventive activity,
- Industrial application.
(Protectable subject matter can be restricted)
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Trade marks for products,
services:
2D or 3D pictures, words, names, colours, and/or
sounds.
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Design:
Aesthetic configuration of an object or a specific
shape.
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Literary, graphic or musical works, software,
databases.
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Technical information.
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Duration of protection:
20 years.
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Duration of protection (in most of
the EU Member States) :
10 years.
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Duration of protection:
10 years, indefinitely renewable.
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Duration of protection:
5 years, renewable to up to 25 years (according to Directive
98/71 on the legal protection of Designs).
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Duration of protection:
Author’s lifetime +70 years.
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Duration of protection:
Indefinite until in the public domain.
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Instruments:
- National patents;
- Euro-patents applications;
- International application (PCT).
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Instruments:
- National utility models (not available in all EU).
- International application (PCT)
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Instruments:
- National trade marks;
- Community trade marks;
- International registration of trade marks.
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Instruments
:
- National industrial designs;
- International deposit of industrial designs;
- Community design.
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Instruments:
No registration;
The protection arises merely through the act of
creation.
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Instruments:
No registration.
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Competent authorities:
- National patent offices;
- EPO.
- WIPO.
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Competent authorities:
- National patent offices;
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Competent authorities:
- National patent offices;
- OHIM - Office for the Harmonisation in the Internal
Market (trade marks and designs);
- WIPO.
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Competent authorities
:
- National patent offices;
- OHIM;
- WIPO.
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