Notice of Public Hearing and Request for Comments on the Proposed New Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs

Résumé

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is seeking comments to obtain views of the public on the international effort to form a new Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs. The proposed Act will make it easier for United States applicants to obtain protection of their industrial designs abroad by providing a mechanism in which a single international application on industrial designs will have the effect of filing an application in each of the Parties designated by the applicant. Interested members of the public are invited to testify at the hearing and to present written comments on any of the topics outlined in the supplementary information section of this notice.