UPORABNI MODEL KAO NOVI OBLIK ZAŠTITE IZUMA

The utility model is a new form for the protection of inventions introduced in Croatian law by Patent Act 2020. It entitles owner to exclusive right use and dispose invention that subject from date publication registration. validity ten years submission application, with payment annual maintenance fee. registration procedure initiated special application. State Intellectual Property Office examines its conformity does not examine novelty, inventive step industrial applicability invention. compose search report state art. Certain cannot be protected model. allows branching off application patent same also conversion vice versa. may request full examination into patent. This submitted no later than end seventh year protection. Third parties declaration nullity during whole period validity. entitled sue persons who infringe his rights.