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Principles of Legal Regulation of Industrial Property Act (2003)

Country/Territory
Estonia
Document type
Legislation
Date
2003 (2019)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
RT I 2003, 18, 98
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Food & nutrition, Cultivated plants, General
Keyword
Intellectual property rights/patents Business/industry/corporations Internal trade International trade Governance Procedural matters Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings
Geographical area
Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Northern Europe
Entry into force notes
The Act shall remain in force until the entry into force of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court and of the Agreement on the Establishment of a Nordic-Baltic Regional Division of the Unified Patent Court for Estonia
Abstract

This Act regulates the status of industrial property registers established pursuant to industrial property protection acts, the registrar of such registers, the status and financing of the registrar, the status and financing of the Industrial Property Board of Appeal, and regulates the maintenance of registers and the extra-judicial contestation of the decisions of the registrar and legal protection of objects of industrial property rights before the Board of Appeal. For the purposes of this Act, the following are objects of industrial property rights: (1) inventions registered pursuant to the Patents Act, the Utility Models Act or the Implementation of Convention on Grant of European Patents Act (RT I 2002, 38, 233); (2) layout-designs of integrated circuits registered pursuant to the Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Protection Act; (3) trade marks and service marks registered pursuant to the Trade Marks Act; and (4) industrial designs registered pursuant to the Industrial Design Protection Act.

Full text
English/Estonian
Website
www.riigiteataja.ee