Croatia Industrial Design Protection Procedure : gov.hr
Organization : Government of the Republic of Croatia
Facility : Industrial Design Protection Procedure
Country : Croatia
Website : https://gov.hr/en/trademarks/1446
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What is Industrial Design Protection?
Industrial design protection is an effective market tool which a manufacturer can use to protect its own investments in product development and production. A protected design is an intellectual property which may be granted for use by the owner to other persons for the duration of the protection by granting a license, or they may transfer it entirely to other persons. A protected (registered) industrial design provides the holder (owner) with the exclusive right to use or make, offer, market, import or export a product containing the industrial design to which the industrial design has been applied.
Industrial Design Protection Procedure
If you want to protect the external appearance (manifestation) of your product by industrial design as a form of intellectual property, you shall perform the appropriate registration procedure with the State Intellectual Property Office.
It should be pointed out that the protection of industrial design refers exclusively to the external appearance (manifestation) of the product and not the functionality thereof.
Given that one of the main conditions for the protection of industrial design is its novelty, the registration process shall be initiated before placing the product on the market, or before the design that is the subject of protection is in any way made available to the public.
The registration process is initiated by submitting the appropriate application, whether single (for one design) or multiple (for several different designs). The requirement for submitting a multiple application is that all designs contained therein shall relate to products belonging to the same class of the International Classification for Industrial Designs (the Locarno Classification).
International Design Protection
Industrial design protection is territory-based, i.e. the protection is valid only in the territory of the country in which the right is granted.
Protection on the territory of other countries can be achieved in the following ways:
** by submitting a separate application to the competent office of each country in which protection is required
** for the entire European Union, by filing a single application for a registered Community design directly with the competent industrial design registration office of the European Union (European Union Intellectual Property Office, EUIPO) or via the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs
** by submitting a single international e-application via the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs directly to the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).