International agreements of industrial property
Paris Convention for the Protectionof Industrial Property (1883) (Estonia acceded 12.02.1924)
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Stockholm Act, 1967)
Remarks: Estonia acceded to the Paris Convention (Washington Act, 1911) with effect from 12 February 1924. It lost its independence on 6 August 1940 and regained it on 20 August 1991 (Estonia reacceded 24.08.1994)
Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (Stockholm, 1967) (Estonia acceded 05.02.1994)
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Estonia acceded 13.11.1999)
Acts
Patents Act
Implementation of the Convention on Grant of European Patents Act
Legal acts of the European Union
Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 6 May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (Codified version)
Regulation (EC) No 1610/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council
International agreements
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) (Washington, 1970) (Estonia acceded 24.08.1994)
Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure (1977) (Estonia acceded 14.09.1996)
Strasbourg Agreement concerning the International Patent Classification (1971) (Estonia acceded 27.02.1997)
The European Patent Convention (Estonia acceded 01.07.2002)
Implementing Regulations – to the Convention on the Grant of European Patents
Patent Law Treaty (Estonia acceded 28.04.2005)
Acts
Legal acts of the European Union
Legal protection for the trade mark valid in the European Union is provided on the basis of the below given legal acts. The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), registers EUropean Union trade marks and carries out procedures related to their processing in accordance with the below given regulations of the Council and the Commission.
The basis of the legal protection of the trade mark, requirements for the trade mark and general rules regulating processing of the trade mark as well as the grounds for appeal and revocation are provided in the Council Regulation. Commission Regulations for implementing the Council Regulation deal with the legal protection procedures of the trade mark in detail, as they regulate mainly procedural activities.
Regulation (EU) 2015/2424 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark and Commission Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 2869/95 on the fees payable to the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Text with EEA relevance)
International agreements
Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (1957) (Estonia acceded 27.05.1996)
Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (1989) (Estonia acceded 18.11.1998)
Trademark Law Treaty (1994) (Estonia acceded 07.01.2003)
Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks (Estonia acceded 14.08.2009)
Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol (Estonia acceded 30.06.2006)
International agreements
Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs (1968) (Estonia acceded 31.10.1996)
Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (1999) (Estonia acceded 23.12.2003)
Legal acts of the European Union
Acts
The Constitution of the Republic of Estonia
Information to be provided in the transparency report of the collective management organization (only in Estonian)
Sources of careful search prior to the recognition of orphan work status (only in Estonian)
Procedure of applying for and paying scholarship from fees derived from exercise of copyright and related rights passed to the State by succession (only in Estonian)
Conventions
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
Annex 1C to the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization: Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
WIPO Copyright Treaty, signed by the Republic of Estonia in 1997 and entered into force in Estonia in 2010
Universal Copyright Convention, USSR joined in 1973, the Republic of Estonia has not joined
International Convention for The Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations, (Rome Convention 1961), entered into force in the Republic of Estonia on the 28th of April, 2000
Convention for the protection of producers of phonograms against unauthorized duplication of their phonograms (only in Estonian)
WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT, 1996, entered into force in the Republic of Estonia on the14th of March 2010)
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, article 15: The parties of Covenant recognize the right of everyone to benefit from the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 27 (2): everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author
Last updated: 04.07.2024