Hague Guide for Users - WIPO

1 Hague Guide for Users Table of Contents Hague Guide for Users .. 1. Introduction .. 10. The Guide .. 10. The Hague System: general overview .. 11. Who may use the System?.. 11. No prior national application or registration .. 11. Contents of the application .. 11. Transmitting the international application to the International Bureau .. 12. Formal examination by the International Bureau .. 12. Publication .. 12. Substantive examination by the Office of each designated Contracting Party: possibility of notifying a refusal of protection .. 13. Statement of grant of protection .. 13. Protection governed by domestic law .. 14. Duration of protection .. 14. Changes in the International 14. Advantages of the 14. Becoming party to the Hague Agreement .. 15. States .. 15. Intergovernmental organizations .. 15. Entry into force of the 1999 Act and the 1960 Act with respect to a given Contracting Party.

2 16. Determination of which Act is applicable in respect of the designation of a given Contracting Party .. 17. Determination of the Act or Acts which govern an international application as a whole .. 17. Declarations by Contracting Parties .. 18. Examining Office .. 19. Submission of 19. Effective date of declarations .. 19. Mandatory declaration .. 19. Duration of protection maximum duration of protection .. 19. Declarations that are mandatory in certain circumstances .. 20. Deferment of publication .. 20. Deferred publication for a period that is less than the prescribed period .. 20. No deferment of publication .. 20. Optional 20. page 2 Hague Guide for Users Prohibition on filing through national 21. Prohibition on self-designation .. 21. Security clearance .. 21. Designation fees (declaration) .. 21. Individual designation fees .. 21. Standard designation fees.

3 23. Mandatory contents of an international application (declaration) .. 24. Identity of the creator .. 24. Brief description .. 24. Claim .. 25. Special requirements concerning the applicant and the creator (Rule 8). (declaration) .. 25. Filing in name of the creator .. 25. Oath or declaration of the 25. Unity of 26. Requirements concerning views .. 26. Refusal of 27. Extension of period for notification of refusal (Rule 18(1)(b)) .. 27. Date of effect of international registration .. 27. Date of effect of international registration (Rule 18(1)(c)(i)) .. 27. Date of effect of international registration (Rule 18(1)(c)(ii)) .. 27. Effect of change in 28. Common Office of several states .. 28. Official records .. 28. Extracts and certified copies .. 28. Data dissemination .. 29. General .. 30. Communications with the International 30. Modalities of communications with the International 30.

4 Communications sent by mail .. 30. Communications sent by 31. Communications sent by electronic 31. Official forms .. 32. Continuation 33. Indication of dates .. 33. Unofficial forms .. 33. Calculation of time limits .. 33. Hague Guide for Users page 3. Excuse of delay in meeting time limits .. 34. Languages .. 35. International applications .. 35. Translation .. 36. Payment of fees to the International Bureau .. 36. Currency of payment .. 37. Mode of payment .. 37. Date of payment .. 38. Change in the amount of fee .. 38. Representation before the International Bureau .. 39. Method of appointment of a representative .. 39. In the international application .. 39. In a request for the recording of a change .. 39. In a separate 40. Only one representative .. 40. Irregular appointment .. 40. Recording and notification of 40. Effect of the 41. Cancellation of appointment.

5 41. No 42. International procedure .. 43. Harmonization of terminology .. 43. Entitlement to file an international application .. 43. Determination of the State of origin (under the 1960 Act) and determination of the applicant's Contracting Party (under the 1999 Act).. 44. Determination of the State of origin under the 1960 45. Determination of the applicant's Contracting Party under the 1999 Act .. 45. Plurality of entitlements .. 45. Several applicants .. 46. Contents of the international application .. 46. Mandatory contents .. 46. Additional mandatory contents .. 46. Optional contents .. 47. Special requirements under the law of a Contracting Party .. 48. Special requirements concerning the applicant and the creator .. 48. Special requirements concerning the unity of the design .. 49. Language of the international application .. 50. How to submit an international application to the International Bureau: E-filing or DM/1 form.

6 52. How to complete the international application (form DM/1 or E-filing)? .. 53. page 4 Hague Guide for Users Item 1: Applicant (mandatory).. 53. Name .. 53. Several 53. Address .. 54. Item 2: Entitlement to file (mandatory) .. 54. Entitlement via an intergovernmental organization .. 54. Multiple entitlements .. 55. Item 3: Applicant's Contracting Party (mandatory where the 1999 Act applies).. 55. Item 4: Address for correspondence .. 55. Several applicants: address for correspondence .. 56. Phone and facsimile number and email address .. 56. Item 5: Appointment of a representative (if any) .. 56. Item 6: Number of industrial designs, reproductions and/or specimens (mandatory) .. 57. Item 7: Designated Contracting Parties (mandatory) .. 58. What Contracting Parties may be designated? .. 58. Protection in the State of origin and in the applicant's Contracting Party.

7 59. Application filed in the name of the 59. Item 8: Products which constitute the industrial design or in relation to which it is to be used (mandatory) .. 59. Item 9: Description .. 60. Item 10: Description of the reproductions (legends) .. 61. Item 11: Identity of the creator .. 61. Item 12: Claim (applicable to the designation of the United States of America only) .. 62. Item 13: Priority claim Article 4 of the Paris Convention .. 62. Item 14: International exhibition Article 11 of the Paris Convention .. 64. Item 15: Exception to lack of novelty (optional element applicable to the designation of Japan and/or Republic of Korea only) .. 65. Item 16: Relation with a principal design (optional element applicable to the designation of Japan and/or Republic of Korea only) .. 65. Item 17: Publication of the international 66. Immediate publication .. 66. Deferred publication.

8 67. Item 18: Reduction of the United States of America individual designation fee (applicable to the designation of the United States of America only) .. 67. Item 19: Signature by the applicant or his representative (mandatory) .. 67. Hague Guide for Users page 5. Name of contact person .. 68. Payment of fees .. 68. Fees due .. 68. Reduction of fees for applicants from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) .. 68. Individual designation fee payable in two parts (applicable to the designation of the United States of America only) .. 69. Annex I: Oath or declaration of the creator .. 71. Annex II: Supporting document(s) concerning a declaration to the exception to lack of 71. Annex III: Information on eligibility for 72. Annex IV: Reduction of United States individual designation fee .. 72. Annex V: Supporting document(s) concerning priority claim .. 73. The reproductions of the industrial designs.

9 74. 74. Mode of reproduction .. 74. Representation of the industrial 75. Disclaimers and matter that does not form part of the claimed design .. 76. Number of reproductions .. 76. Numbering of reproductions and legends .. 76. Dimensions of the reproductions .. 77. Specific 77. Quality of the 77. Filing of specimens under the 1999 Act .. 78. Filing of specimens under the 1960 Act .. 78. Requirements concerning specimens .. 78. No additional matter .. 79. Presentation of the international application to the International 79. Channels of communication .. 79. Filing date of the international application .. 80. Irregularities in the international application .. 80. Time limit for correcting irregularities .. 80. Irregularities entailing a postponement of the filing date of the international application .. 81. Irregularities concerning the prohibition on 81. Irregularities concerning special requirement notified by a Contracting Party or regarding the identity of the creator, description and claim.

10 81. Publication of the international registration .. 82. Publication cycle .. 83. Timing of publication .. 83. page 6 Hague Guide for Users Deferment of publication .. 83. Consequences of deferred publication .. 83. Periods of deferment .. 84. Events during period of 86. Request for earlier publication .. 86. Request to provide extract or authorize access .. 86. Renunciation or limitation .. 86. Furnishing of confidential copies to Examining Offices; confidentiality .. 87. Updating of data concerning the international registration .. 87. The international registration .. 88. Registration in the International Register .. 88. Crediting of fees .. 89. Date of the international registration .. 89. Refusal of protection .. 89. Notion of refusal .. 89. Grounds for 90. Unity of 90. Time limits for refusal .. 91. Procedure for refusal of protection .. 92. Contents of the notification.