Hague Agreement Enhances Benefits Of US Design Patents

Law360, New York (May 15, 2015, 11:20 AM EDT) -- Design patents are one of the better values among the various forms of intellectual property protection available in the United States. Design patents' value and effectiveness increased on May 13, 2015, when the United States' accession to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs entered into force. New U.S. design patents gain an additional year of life, and foreign filing has become much easier....

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