The Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs regulates the issues of international registration of industrial designs.

The Hague system is a centralized system for acquiring and maintaining rights to an industrial design by filing one international application to any number of countries that are members of this agreement. More than 70 countries, including the CIS and Baltic countries, are parties to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement.

According to The Hague Agreement, an industrial design is protected in accordance with the legislation of the country in which it is registered, but for at least five years from the date of international registration.

A draft law “On the accession of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Geneva Act of The Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs (Geneva, July 2, 1999)” was considered at a meeting of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis.

As noted, The Hague Agreement provides for procedures for registering industrial designs that are more convenient than existing national systems for entities interested in promoting their products, primarily in foreign markets.

Uzbekistan’s accession to the Geneva Act of The Hague Agreement allows manufacturers of products resident in Uzbekistan to use a simplified system of registration procedures for industrial designs on the territory of several countries participating in the Hague Agreement.

The draft law was adopted by deputies at the meeting.

M.Komilova, UzA