Community Design: accession
to the Hague Agreement - Geneve Act
The European Community submitted to the WIPO (World Intellectual
Property Organisation) in Geneva its instrument of accession to
the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international
registration of industrial designs. This accession will allow
EU companies, with a single application, to obtain protection
of a design not only throughout the EU with the Community Design,
but also in the countries which are members of the Geneva Act.
It will simplify procedures and reduce the costs for international
protection . The system will become operational for businesses
on 1 January 2008 .
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