National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 31 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: 20 years from the filing date.
Annuities: are to be paid from the third year on (first 3 years to be paid simultaneously).
Opposition: possible within nine months of the date of publication of the patent grant announcement.
Kinds of protection: trade and service marks comprising a word or device or a combination of both, two- and three-dimensional designations as well as sounds and smells.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: compulsory. Non-use during any five-year period of effective registration allows any interested party to require cancellation of the registration. Cancellation ex officio on the basis of non-use is excluded.
Duration – renewals: 10-year period from the registration date, renewable for further periods of ten years.
Opposition: has to be filed with the Board of Appeal within two months of the date of publication.
Duration – renewals: after formal examination: 5 years, can be extended for four additional 5-year periods.
Opposition: contestation of the registration of a design is possible only through the courts within three months of the date of publication in the Official Gazette.
Duration – renewals: either one, two or three years, renewable.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: none, but an administrative procedure other than UDRP is available before the Domain Disputes Committee established by the Estonian Internet Foundation.
Area: 45,226 sq. km.
Population: 1,317,800 inhabitants (est. Jan. 2017)
Capital: Tallinn.
Language: Estonian (official) and Russian (still used).
Currency: Euro.
Estonia was a province of imperial Russia before World War I, and independent between World War I and II, but was conquered by the USSR in 1940. Estonia declared itself an "occupied territory" and proclaimed itself a free nation in March 1990. Estonia declared full independence on August 20, 1991.
Member of NATO as of April 2, 2004 and of the European Union as of May 1, 2004.
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