National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 31 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: patent issued after formal examination and substantive examination (to be requested) - valid for 20 years. Consensual Patent (as of January 1, 2000): issued after a formal examination - valid for 10 years.
Annuities: are due for the third and every subsequent year counting from the filing date of the application.
Opposition: after the publication of a patent application, anyone may, within six months, file with the Office an objection to the grant of a consensual patent or a request for the substantive examination; after grant, at any time.
Kinds of protection: verbal, pictorial, three-dimensional and other designations or their combinations. Service marks are registrable.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: compulsory. Non-use during any five-year period after the registration date may lead to cancellation.
Duration - renewals: 10-year period after the filing date or last renewal date.
Opposition: can be filed at the Office within three months after the publication of the trademark application, and a cancellation action can be initiated any time after the registration of the mark.
Duration – renewals: after a formal examination: 5 years from the filing date with four renewal periods of 5 years up to the total term of 25 years.
Opposition: possible after registration, any time.
Duration – renewals: one year, renewable.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: none.
Area: 56,594 sq. km.
Population: 4,284,889 inhabitants.
Capital: Zagreb.
Language: Croatian.
Currency: kuna.
Croatia used to be a part of former Yugoslavia. The republic declared its independence on October 8, 1991. The former Yugoslav industrial property rights filed at the Yugoslav Patent Office before that date, could be re-registered at the Croatian Intellectual Property Office until their respective renewal dates.
Member ot the European Union as of July 1, 2013.
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