Legal encyclopedia. Letter P

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

-conclusive term, including rights to invention, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, trade names and indications of origin or appellation of origin, rights relating to protection against unfair competition.

PS is protected by filing applications for inventions, trademarks, other objects in accordance with the rules of international agreements.

The main document that protects PS is the Paris Convention for the Protection of PS in 1883, the main purpose of which is the creation of preferential conditions for the patenting of inventions, industrial designs, registration of trademarks by organizations, firms and citizens of certain states in other states.

According to the Paris Convention, an application submitted in one participating country has priority in all other countries within 12

Months (for inventions) or 6 months (for trademarks), calculated from the moment of filing an application in the first country. The Convention provides advantages for member countries in the protection of inventions at exhibitions, regulates issues related to registration abroad of trademarks, while establishing certain requirements for trademarks.

The Paris Convention on the Protection of PS plays an important role in the development of scientific, technical and economic cooperation of various states.