National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 31 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: 20 years from the filing date.
Annuities: are accumulated and due on the day of publication.
Opposition: not provided for.
Kinds of protection: trademarks comprising a word or device or a combination of both, two- and three-dimensional designations. Service marks are registrable.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: compulsory. Non-use during any five-year period of effective registration allows any interested party to require cancellation of the registration. Cancellation ex officio on the basis of non-use is excluded.
Duration – renewals: 10-year period from the filing date, renewable for further periods of 10 years.
Opposition: possible within three months from the publication date but on relative grounds only and by persons concerned by the cited prior right.
Duration - renewals: 5 years. Can be extended for four additional 5-year periods.
Opposition: not provided for.
Area: 93,036 sq. km.
Population: 9,778,000 (estimated 2018).
Capital: Budapest.
Language: Hungarian.
Currency: Forint.
Hungary is an OECD country and a member of the European Union as of May 1, 2004.
GDP in 2017 was U.S.$ 139.1 billion.
Hungary's economy is predominantly services-based. Agriculture accounts for 4.5% of GDP, manufacturing and industry for 30.3% and services for 65.2%.
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