2021 US Code
Title 35 - Patents
Part V - The Hague Agreement Concerning International Registration of Industrial Designs
Chapter 38 - International Design Applications
Sec. 385 - Effect of international design application
| 35 U.S.C. § 385 (2021) |
| §385. Effect of international design application |
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An international design application designating the United States shall have the effect, for all purposes, from its filing date determined in accordance with section 384, of an application for patent filed in the Patent and Trademark Office pursuant to chapter 16. |
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(Added Pub. L. 112–211, title I, §101(a), Dec. 18, 2012, 126 Stat. 1529.) |
| 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. |
| United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 35 - PATENTS |
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| Title 35 - PATENTS PART V - THE HAGUE AGREEMENT CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS CHAPTER 38 - INTERNATIONAL DESIGN APPLICATIONS Sec. 385 - Effect of international design application |
| section 385 |
| 2021 |
| January 3, 2022 |
| Yes |
| standard |
| 126 Stat. 1529 |
| Public Law 112-211 |
