SEIMAS
RESOLUTION
ON THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE PATENT LAW
OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania resolves:
I. To establish that:
1. The Patent Law of the Republic of Lithuania shall protect
the rights of the persons who, pursuant to the Republic of
Lithuania Government Decree No.362 of 20 May 1992 "On the Legal
Protection of Industrial Property in the Republic of Lithuania",
have re-registered the USSR patents and inventorship certificates
and have been granted the patents of the Republic of Lithuania.
Annual fees for the USSR inventorship certificates re-registered
into the patents of the Republic of Lithuania shall be paid
beginning with the first year of patent validity.
2. Person who have filed the patent applications pursuant to
the Republic of Lithuania Government Decree No.362 of 20 May
1992 "On the Legal Protection of Industrial Property in the
Republic of Lithuania", shall have the right to be granted
patents according to the provisions stipulated in this Law. The
priority of such patent application shall be established in
accordance with the date of filing such application with the
State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania. Such
applications may contain a request to grant priority in
accordance with the date of filing a previous application with
the USSR Patent Office, which remained pending by 31 January
1992. The priority date for such application shall be granted in
accordance with the filing date of a previous patent application
with the USSR Patent Office or the conventional priority date.
The application may contain a request to grant priority in
accordance with a previous international patent application,
filed in accordance with the Patent Cooperation Treaty, if the
USSR Patent Office was so requested, but the patent was not
granted. The priority date shall be established in accordance
with the international application filing date or the
conventional priority date.
An application may contain a request to grant priority in
accordance with a previous patent application, deposited with
the State Patent Bureau prior to the adoption of the Government
of the Republic of Lithuania Decree No.362 of 20 May 1992 "On
the Legal Protection of Industrial Property in the Republic of
Lithuania". The priority date of such applications shall be
granted in accordance with the date of depositing such
applications with the State Patent Bureau.
3. Persons who, according to the Government of the Republic
of Lithuania Decree No.126 of 10 April 1991 "On the Provisional
Procedure for the Establishment of Quotas and Issuance of
Licences for Goods and Services Exported from the Republic of
Lithuania", have filed patent applications with foreign patent
offices and provided copies thereof with the State Patent Bureau
shall have the right to file within 6 months from the date of the
entry into force of this Law patent applications as prescribed
by this Law and request to be granted priority date in accordance
with the date of filing such copies with the State Patent Bureau.
4. The patents and inventorship certificates granted by the
USSR Patent Office, but not re-registered with the State patent
Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania in the procedure established
by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, shall not be
considered valid.
II. To propose the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
to take actions to join the Paris Convention for the Protection
of Industrial Property and the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and to
conclude the bilateral agreement with the European Patent
Organization on cooperation in the field of patents.
III. To propose the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
to draft and submit prior to 1 June 1994 to the Seimas of the
Republic of Lithuania the Laws on Service Inventions and the
Procedure for the Conclusion of Licence Agreements.
ČESLOVAS JURŠĖNAS
Seimas Speaker
Republic of Lithuania
Vilnius
18 January 1994
No.I-373
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