Annual Technical Report 2013 on Trademark Information Activities submitted by Lithuania (CWS/ATR/TM/2013/LT)
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I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADEMARK INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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Protection of trademarks is granted by the Law on Trademarks of the Republic of Lithuania (Official Gazette, 2000, No. 92-2844 as amended), which entered into force on 1 January 2011.
There are three ways to get exclusive rights for a trademark in the Republic of Lithuania: (1) under the Law on Trademarks of the Republic of Lithuania by filing applications directly with the SPB (national way); (2) starting from 15 November 1997 - under the Protocol relating to the Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks, according to which the protection provided by the international trademark registration is extended to the Republic of Lithuania (international way); and (3) starting from 1 May 2004 - under the EU Council Regulation No. 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community Trademark (Codified Version), according to which any trademark, registered as a Community trademark with the EU Office for Harmonization for the Internal Market (OHIM), is protected in Lithuania (regional way).
New projects launched or resumed this year in the context of the policies and plans mentioned above, short description: aims, partners, tasks
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From the establishment of the State Patent Bureau until 31 December 2013, the SPB received 68854 applications for registration of a trademark via national way. Within this period 56416 trademarks have been registered at the Register of Trademarks of the Republic of Lithuania, 33702 of them were valid registrations; 31166 changes at the Register, 11101 transfers of rights and 1114 license agreements were recorded. Also, 1966 marks given as security (withdrawals of security) and 348 seizures (withdrawals of seizures) were entered.
Since 1997, 54285 notifications regarding the extension of international marks registrations in Lithuania have been received from the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); 50940 decisions were adopted to grant protection, having performed the examination.
At the end of 2013, 75461 registrations of trademarks, applications for which have been filed under the national and international ways, and 986496 Community trademarks, registered at the Register of Community trademarks of the EU, were in effect in Lithuania.
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
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VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS
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