For the purposes of this Agreement, the following shall be understood:

"1925 Agreement", the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs of November 6, 1925 ¹ ;

"The 1934 Agreement", the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs dated November 6, 1925, revised in London on June 2, 1934 ² ;

"This Agreement", the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs, as a result of this Act;

"The Regulations", the Regulations under this Agreement ³ ;

"International Bureau", the Bureau of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property;

"International filing" means a filing with the International Bureau;

"National filing" means a deposit made with the national administration of a Contracting State;

"Multiple filing" means a deposit comprising several designs;

"State of Origin of an International Deposit", the Contracting State in which the applicant has a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment or, if the applicant has such establishments in several Contracting States, that of those Contracting States He has appointed in his application; if he does not have such an establishment in a Contracting State, the Contracting State in which he has his domicile; if he does not have his domicile in a Contracting State, the Contracting State of which he is a national;

"State carrying out a novelty examination" means a State whose national law provides for a system which includes a preliminary search and examination by its National Authority concerning the novelty of all the drawings or Templates filed.

Nationals of Contracting States or persons who, although not nationals of one of those States, are domiciled or have a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment in the territory of one of those States, May file designs with the International Bureau.

(1) The international deposit may be effected at the International Bureau:

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Directly, or

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Through the State Administration of a Contracting State if the law of that State so permits.

(2) The national law of any Contracting State may require that any international deposit for which that State is deemed to be a State of origin be submitted through its State Administration. Failure to comply with such a requirement shall not affect the effects of the international deposit in the other Contracting States.

(1) The international deposit shall include an application, one or more photographs or any other graphic representations of the design and the payment of the fees prescribed by the Regulations.

(2) The application shall contain:

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The list of Contracting States in which the applicant requests that the international deposit should have effect;

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The designation of the object or objects to which the design is intended to be incorporated;

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If the applicant wishes to claim the priority referred to in Article 9, the indication of the date, the State and the number of the filing which gives rise to the right of priority;

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Any other information prescribed by the Regulations.

(3) (a) The application may also contain:

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A short description of characteristic features of the design;

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A declaration indicating the name of the true creator of the design;

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A request for deferment of publication as provided for in Article 6, paragraph (4).

(b)

Copies or models of the object to which the design is incorporated may also be attached to the application.

(4) A multiple deposit may include several designs intended to be incorporated into objects in the same class of the International Classification of Designs referred to in Article 21, paragraph (2), number 4 °.

(1) The International Bureau shall keep the International Register of Designs and register the international deposits.

(2) The international deposit shall be considered to have been effected on the date on which the International Bureau received the request in due form, the fees payable with the application and the photograph (s), or any other graphic representations of the Design or, if not received at the same time, on the date on which the last of those formalities were completed. The registration shall bear the same date.

3)

(a) For each international deposit, the International Bureau shall publish in a periodical bulletin:

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Reproductions in black and white or, at the request of the applicant, reproductions in colour, photographs or any other graphic representations filed;

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The international filing date;

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The information prescribed by the Regulations.

(b)

The International Bureau shall, as soon as possible, send the periodical bulletin to the National Authorities.

4)

(a) The publication referred to in paragraph (3), letter (a) shall, at the request of the applicant, be deferred during the period required by the applicant. This period may not exceed a period of twelve months from the international filing date. However, if priority is claimed, the starting point for that period is the priority date.

(b)

During the period referred to in (a) above, the applicant may, at any time, request the immediate publication or withdraw his deposit. The withdrawal of the deposit may be limited to one or more Contracting States only and, in the case of multiple deposits, to any part of the designs included in the deposit.

(c)

If the applicant does not pay the fees due before the expiration of the period referred to in (a) above, the International Bureau shall cancel the deposit and do not make the publication referred to in paragraph (3), letter (a).

(d)

Until the expiration of the period referred to in (a) above, the International Bureau shall keep the registration of a deposit together with a deferred publication request secret, and the public shall not be aware of any document or object Concerning the said deposit. These provisions shall apply without limitation as long as the applicant has withdrawn his deposit before the expiration of that period.

(5) With the exception of the cases referred to in paragraph (4), the public may become aware of the Register and of all documents and articles deposited in the International Bureau.

1)

(a) Any deposit registered with the International Bureau shall, in each of the Contracting States designated by the applicant in its application, produce the same effects as if all the formalities prescribed by the national law for obtaining protection had been Complied with by the applicant and that if all the administrative acts provided for that purpose had been performed by the Authority of that State.

(b)

Subject to the provisions of Article 11, the protection of designs which have been deposited in the International Bureau shall be governed in each of the Contracting States by the provisions of the national law which apply In the said State to designs whose protection is claimed by the national filing system and for which all the formalities have been complied with and all administrative acts have been performed.

(2) The international deposit shall not have any effect in the State of origin if the law of that State so provides.

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7, the National Authority of a Contracting State whose national law provides for the refusal of protection following an administrative examination of its own motion or following the opposition of a third party shall, in Refusal, to make known, within six months, to the International Bureau, that the design does not comply with the requirements which this legislation imposes in addition to the formalities and administrative acts referred to in Article 7 (1). If the refusal is not notified within the six-month time limit, the international deposit shall have effect in that State from the date of that filing. However, in any Contracting State which conducts a novelty examination, if a refusal has not been notified within the six-month time limit, the international deposit, while maintaining its priority, produces its effects in that State from The expiry of the said time limit, unless the national legislation provides for an earlier date for deposits made to its National Authority.

(2) The period of six months referred to in paragraph (1) shall be calculated from the date on which the National Authority has received the number of the periodical bulletin in which the international deposit is published. The National Authority must disclose this date to any third party on its request.

(3) The applicant shall have the same means of appeal against the decision of refusal of the National Authority referred to in paragraph (1) only if he had filed his design with that Authority; in any case, the decision of refusal must be able to Be subject to review or appeal. Notification of the decision shall indicate:

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The reasons for finding that the design does not meet the requirements of the national law;

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The date referred to in paragraph (2);

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The time limit for requesting a review or representation;

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The Authority to which that application or appeal may be addressed.

4)

(a) The National Authority of a Contracting State whose national law contains provisions of the nature of those provided for in paragraph (1) and which require a declaration indicating the name of the true creator of the design or a Description of the said design, may require that, within a time limit which cannot be less than 60 days from the sending of a request to that effect, by that Authority, the applicant furnish, in the language in which the application filed in the International Bureau has been drafted:

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A statement indicating the true creator of the design;

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A short description highlighting the essential characteristic features of the design, as they appear in the photographs or other graphic representations.

(b)

No fee shall be levied by a National Authority for the furnishing of such a declaration or description or for the publication thereof by the care of that National Authority.

5)

(a) Each Contracting State whose national law contains provisions of the nature of those provided for in paragraph (1) shall inform the International Bureau accordingly.

(b)

If the law of a Contracting State provides for several systems for the protection of designs, and if one of those systems includes a novelty examination, the provisions of this Agreement relating to those States that practice such examination Apply only in respect of this system.

If the international deposit of the design is effected within six months of the first filing of the same design in one of the member States of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property and the priority is Date of the priority is that of the first filing.

(1) The international deposit may be renewed every five years, by the sole payment, in the last year of each five-year period, of the renewal fees fixed by the Regulations.

(2) Subject to the payment of a surcharge fixed by the Regulation, a grace period of six months shall be granted for the renewal of the international deposit.

(3) When paying the renewal fees, must be indicated, the international filing number, and if the renewal is not to be effected for all Contracting States where the deposit is about to expire, those of those States where the Renewal must be carried out.

(4) Renewal may be limited to only part of the designs included in a multiple deposit.

(5) The International Bureau shall register and publish renewals.

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(a) The term of protection granted by a Contracting State to designs which have been the subject of an international deposit may not be less than:

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Ten years from the international filing date if that deposit has been renewed;

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Five years from the international filing date in the absence of renewal.

(b)

However, if, under the provisions of the national law of a Contracting State which carries out a novelty examination, the protection begins at a date later than that of the international deposit, the minimum periods provided for in the letter (a) shall be Calculated from the starting point of protection in that State. The fact that the international deposit is not renewed or is renewed only once shall in no way affect the minimum term of protection thus defined.

(2) If the law of a Contracting State provides, for designs which have been the subject of a national filing, protection for which the term, with or without renewal, is greater than ten years, protection of an equal duration shall be granted in That State on the basis of the international deposit and its renewals to the designs which have been the subject of an international deposit.

(3) Any Contracting State may, in its national law, limit the term of protection of designs which have been the subject of an international deposit to the times provided for in paragraph (1).

(4) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (1), letter (b), the protection shall terminate in the Contracting States on the date of expiration of the international deposit, unless the national law of those States provides that the protection continues after the Date of expiration of the international deposit.

(1) The International Bureau shall record and publish any change affecting the ownership of a design that is the subject of an international deposit in force. It is understood that the transfer of ownership may be limited to the rights deriving from the international deposit in one or more Contracting States only and, in the case of multiple filing, to only part of the designs included in the said Filing.

(2) The registration referred to in paragraph (1) shall have the same effect as if it had been effected by the National Offices of the Contracting States.

(1) The holder of an international deposit may, by means of a declaration addressed to the International Bureau, waive his rights for all Contracting States or for a certain number of them only and, in the case of multiple filing, for Only part of the designs included in the said deposit.

(2) The International Bureau shall record and publish the declaration.

(1) A Contracting State may require, for the recognition of the right, that a sign or reference to the deposit of the design be affixed to the object to which the design is incorporated.

(2) If the national law of a Contracting State provides for the affixing of a reservation to any other purpose, that State shall treat that requirement as satisfied if all the objects presented in the publication with the authorization of the holder of the The design right, or if the labels of which these objects are fitted, bear the reference to the international reserve.

(3) The symbol (D) (capital letter D in a circle) accompanied by either:

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The indication of the year of the international deposit and the usual name or abbreviation of the name of the applicant, or

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The international filing number.

(4) The only statement of the international reservation on articles or labels may in no way be interpreted as implying the renunciation of copyright protection or any other title, where, in The absence of such a statement, this protection may be obtained.

(1) The fees prescribed by the Regulations include:

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Fees for the International Bureau;

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Fees for the Contracting States designated by the applicant, namely:

(a)

A fee for each Contracting State;

(b)

A fee for each of the Contracting States which carries out a novelty examination and requires the payment of a fee to carry out the examination.

(2) For the same deposit, the fees paid in respect of a Contracting State, under the provisions of paragraph (1), number 2 °, letter (a), shall be deducted from the amount of the fee referred to in paragraph (1), figure 2 °, letter (b), where the latter tax becomes chargeable For the said State.

The provisions of this Agreement shall not prevent the application of the broader requirements which would be enacted by the national law of a Contracting State and shall in no way affect the protection accorded to works Art and works of art applied by international treaties and conventions on copyright.