National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 34 months; under Chapter II: 34 months.
Validity: Consensual Patent, issued after formal examination: valid for 10 years; Patent, issued after substantial examination: valid for 20 years.
Annuities: are due starting from the first and each following year for patent applications and patents counting from the filing date (or international filing date for PCT applications).
Opposition: not provided for, but interested parties can notify the Intellectual Property Office about the existence of an identical or similar invention.
Kinds of protection: verbal, pictorial, three-dimensional and other designations or their combination. Certification marks and service marks are registrable.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: compulsory. Non-use during any five-year period after the publication date or the last date of use may lead to cancellation.
Duration - renewals: 10-year period after the filing date; renewable for further periods of 10 years.
Opposition: to be filed within 3 months from the publication date.
Duration - renewals: after formal and complete examination: 5 years from the filing date; renewable four times for additional 5 years .
Opposition: to be filed within 3 months from the publication date.
Duration - renewals: one to five years, renewable for like periods.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: none.
Area: : 51,129 sq. km.
Population: 3,880,000 inhabitants (estimated 2012).
Capital: Sarajevo, with 305,000 inhabitants.
Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian.
Currency: KM (konvertibilna marka).
Bosnia and Herzegovina used to be part of former Yugoslavia. It declared its independence on March 1, 1992.
The Intellectual Property Office was established in October 1992 in Sarajevo as a department of the State Institute for Standardization, Metrology and Patents.
The former Yugoslav Industrial Property Law of 1990 was slightly amended and adopted in 1994. New separate Laws on Patents, Trademarks, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications and Topographies of Semiconductor Products entered into force on January 1, 2011.
If you wish more detailed information concerning intellectual property protection in this territory please contact us or order Katzarov's Manual on Industrial Property®.
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