Latvia IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names

Latvia is a North European Baltic country in European Union. It is bordered to the north by Estonia (343 km), to the south by Lithuania (588 km), and to the east both by Belarus (141 km) and the Russian Federation (276 km). Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden. The territory of Latvia covers 64,589 km² and has a temperate seasonal climate.

General Information

Capital:

Riga

Population:

2.2 Million

Languages:

Latvian

Government Type:

Parliamentary Republic

Dialing Code:

+371

Timezone:

GMT +2

Monetary Unit:

Lats (Ls) (LVL)

More information:

Latvia

International Arrangements

WIPO Convention
Paris Convention (Industrial Property)
Berne Convention (Literary and Artistic Works
PCT (Patents)
PLT (Patent Law Treaty)
Madrid Agreement (International Registration of Marks)
Madrid Protocol (International Registration of Marks)
Hague Agreement (International Deposit of Industrial Designs)
Nice Agreement (International Classification of Goods and Services)
Locarno Agreement (International Classification for Industrial Designs)
Rome Convention (Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations)
Geneva Convention (Unauthorized Duplication of Phonograms)
Budapest Treaty (De (sit of Micro-organisms)
TLT (Trademarks)
WCT (WIPO Copyright Treaty)
WPPT (WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty)
WTO: Member and Signatory to TRIPS Agreement
Member of EPO (Extension State)
(Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Latvia and the European Patent
Organization on Cooperation in the Field of Patents, Agreement on the Extension of the
European Patent, Latvia
Member of UPOV

Patents

Types of patents:
- Patents of Invention
- Patents of PCT

Filing requirements:
- Power of attorney
- Document on the deposit of the microorganism in an international depository authority, if applicable)
- Specifications, claims, abstract and drawings (if any), appropriate for reproduction- 1 copy
- A priority document, if the priority is be claimed

Notes: the formal documents (power of attorney, priority documents, etc.) can be filed later, within a period of three months calculated from the filing date. The specification can be filed in English, German, French or Russian. Only the claims, abstract and textual matter on drawings have to be translated into Latvian.

PCT applications:
- Time limit for entering the national phase: 31 months from priority date

Granting:
-Twenty years from filing date;

Renewals:
- Information was not found

Trademarks

Filing requirements:
- Power of attorney
- 10 copies of representation of the mark.
- A priority document, if priority is to be claimed
- Name and address of the applicant
- The marks (word mark or label) and the list of goods for which the mark should be protected
- For collective mark only: a certified copy of the statute of the association

Granting:
- Ten years beginning with the filing date, extensible for further periods of ten year

Renewals:
- Can be submitted during the last year of validity

Designs and Models

Filing requirements:
- Name and address of the applicant ;
- Name and address of creator of design ;
- A description of the industrial design;
- A power of attorney;
- Priority document (can be filed within three months)
- Complete reproduction set of the industrial design which provides a full and detailed idea of the external appearance; 6 photos of main view and 4 photos of each other view, the drawings can be filed instead;
- Deed of assignment, only if the applicant is not the same as the one shown in the priority document;

Granting:
- Five years from the date of application;

Renewals:
- Within the last year before the due date, for further two five year periods

Copyrights

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

As a member of the Berne Convention, it is possible to copyright protect creative works in this country, as well as all the other member nations automatically (more than 160 countries), with one single application.

For more information and to submit us your works for worldwide copyright protection, click here.

Domain Names

Domain extension:

.lv

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Latvia IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names