Title 35, PatentsRelease 119-102
§383 International Design Application
Title 35 › PART V — THE HAGUE AGREEMENT CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS › CHAPTER 38 — INTERNATIONAL DESIGN APPLICATIONS › § 383
Summary
Besides the rules in chapter 16, an international design application must ask to register the design under the treaty and name the countries where protection is wanted. It must also give the applicant’s required information, include one or more pictures of the design in the treaty’s format, identify the product(s) the design covers, pay the required fees, and provide any other details the rules require.
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Title 35, §383
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In addition to any requirements pursuant to chapter 16, the international design application shall contain— (1)
(2)an indication of the designated Contracting Parties;
(3)data concerning the applicant as prescribed in the treaty and the Regulations;
(4)copies of a reproduction or, at the choice of the applicant, of several different reproductions of the industrial design that is the subject of the international design application, presented in the number and manner prescribed in the treaty and the Regulations;
(5)an indication of the product or products that constitute the industrial design or in relation to which the industrial design is to be used, as prescribed in the treaty and the Regulations;
(6)the fees prescribed in the treaty and the Regulations; and
(7)any other particulars prescribed in the Regulations.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on the later of the date that is 1 year after Dec. 18, 2012, or the date that the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs enters into force with respect to the United States (May 13, 2015), and applicable only to certain applications filed on and after that
Effective Date
and patents issuing thereon, see section 103 of Pub. L. 112–211, set out as an
Effective Date
of 2012 Amendment note under section 100 of this title.
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Citation
35 U.S.C. § 383
Title 35, Patents
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102