Patent Law (No. I-372 of 1994).

Subject

Agricultural & rural development, Cultivated plants

Keyword

Intellectual property rights/patents Genetic resources Registration Certification

Geographical area

Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Northern Europe

Entry into force notes

The Law enters into force on 1 February 1994.

Abstract

This Law shall legitimise inventions as objects of industrial property, regulate the rights and duties of legal and natural persons with respect to inventions, provide legal protection thereof. The form of protection of inventions shall be a patent granted by the State Patent Bureau in the procedure established by this Law (art. 1). Patents shall be available for any inventions in all fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are capable of industrial application. Patents shall not be granted for: 1) methods for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy, and diagnostic and prophylactic methods practised on the human or animal body. This provision shall not apply if an object of invention is equipment or materials utilised for such methods; 2) plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals. This provision shall not apply to microbiological processes for the production of plants or animals or the products thereof (art. 2). An invention shall be considered industrially applicable if it can be made or used in industry, agriculture, health protection and other spheres (art. 5). A patent application shall contain: 1) a request for the grant of a patent; 2) a description of the invention; 3) one or more claims; 4) drawings if necessary for the understanding of the essence of the invention; 5) an abstract; 6) a document confirming payment of the fee; 7) a document confirming the right to file a patent application (provided it is filed not by inventor himself) and the declaration regarding inventorship of the invention (art. 11). The State Patent Bureau shall keep the Register of Patents of the Republic of Lithuania. On the register patents shall be assigned a serial number in the order of their grant (art. 23). A supplementary protection certificate may be granted to a patent owner or his successor in title for a period not exceeding five years, if legal protection is conferred to: 1) active substances of a plant protection product (art. 271 ). The Law consists of 12 Sections composed of 62 articles.

Full text

English

Website

www3.lrs.lt

References - Legislation

Amended by

Law No. XIII-548 amending Patent Law (No. I-372 of 1994).

Legislation | Lithuania | 2017

Keyword: Intellectual property rights/patents, Registration, Certification

Source: FAO, FAOLEX