Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Enters Into Force in Oman

The Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, adopted in Geneva on July 2, 1999 (the “Geneva Act”) enters into force in respect of the Sultanate of Oman today.

Oman’s accession to the Geneva Act follows two other Arab countries’ accessions to the Act in recent years: Egypt in 2004 and Syria in 2007.

The Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement enhances the Hague system by making it more compatible with the procedures for the registration of industrial designs in countries where protection of industrial designs is sometimes contingent on a more complex examination to determine the acceptability of an application, so as to allow these countries, such as the United States and Japan, to accede to the Hague System.

Back in July 2007, the government of Oman deposited its instrument of accession to the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure of 1977, the Madrid Protocol of 1989 Concerning the International Registration of Marks, the Patent Law Treaty (PLT) of 2000 and the Trademark Law Treaty (TLT) of 1994.
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