Review article
https://doi.org/10.47960/2637-2495.2019.27.5
PATENT GRANTING PROCEDURE IN THE LAW OFBOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Snježana Pehar
; Sveučilište u Mostaru Pravni fakultet, Mostar, Bosna i Hercegovina
Marija Vidić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8743-5351
; Sveučilište u Mostaru Pravni fakultet, Mostar, Bosna i Hercegovina
Cvija Jurković
; Sveučilište u Mostaru Pravni fakultet, Mostar, Bosna i Hercegovina
Abstract
Patent granting and protection procedures are complex, long-lasting, difficult and expensive. The acquisition, maintenance, content, recording of transfer,
cessation and the protection of a patent in B&H is regulated by the Patent Law and
the Regulations Concerning Procedure for the Grant of a Patent and a Consensual
Patent.
Patent granting procedure is an administrative procedure that is conducted by
The Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The process issues
that are not regulated by the Patent Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina or the Regulations Concerning Procedure for the Grant of a Patent and a Consensual Patent, are
then regulated by the Administrative Procedure Law.
Although the three material legal conditions that must be met in order for the invention to be patented are universally accepted, the right to exploit the patented invention is still territorially limited, so the protection of a patent in the EU is regulated on
the national level of each member states. Apart from the Patent Register, the Institute
for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina monitors the Register for Patent
Application. Therefore, the paper analyses the significance of patent application and
the specificities of the patent granting procedure, which is regulated by a specific law.
Keywords
invention; patent; administrative procedures; patent application; Institute for intellectual property
Hrčak ID:
232829
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Publication date:
25.9.2019.
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