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

Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states.

As World War II neared its end in 1944 and the Nazis retreated, the Soviet Union reoccupied Lithuania. On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to declare its renewed independence.

Present-day Lithuania has one of the fastest growing economies in the European Union. Lithuania became a full member of the Schengen Agreement on 21 December 2007. In 2009, Lithuania will celebrate the millennium of its name.

General Information

Capital:

Vilnius

Population:

3.3 Million

Languages:

Lithuanian

Government Type:

Semi-presidential republic

Dialing Code:

+370

Timezone:

GMT +2

Monetary Unit:

Lithuanian litas (Lt) (LTL)

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International Arrangements

WIPO Convention
Paris Convention (Industrial Property)
Berne Convention (Literary and Artistic Works)
PCT (Patents)
Madrid Protocol (International Registration of Marks)
Nice Agreement (International Classification of Goods and Services)
Rome Convention (Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations)
Geneva Convention (Unauthorized Duplication of Phonograms)
Budapest Treaty (Deposit of Micro-organisms)
TLT (Trademarks)
WCT (WIPO Copyright Treaty)
WPPT (WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty)
WTO: Member and Signatory to the TRIPS Agreement
Member of EPO
Member of UPOV

Patents

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

Filing requirements:
- Power of attorney
- Specification with claims and abstract for translation into Lithuanian- 3 copies
- Drawings (if any)- 3 copies
- Priority document (if claimed), to be filed within three months after the filing date, along with a Lithuanian translation
- A document on the deposit of biological material in a depository institution

Granting:
- Twenty years from the filing date

Renewals:
- No found information

Trademarks

Trademarks:
- Power of attorney
- 8 reproductions of the sign, a reproduction if standard symbols of State Patent Bureau have been used
- List of goods and services, according to the international classification
- The priority certificate (if any)
- For a collective mark: statute of the collective mark

Granting:
- Ten years from the filing date

Renewals:
- For further ten year periods

Designs and Models

Filing requirements:
- Name and address of the applicant
- Name and address of the creator of the design
- Photos and graphic representations
- Description of the industrial design
- Document certifying the powers of the representative
- Document confirming the transfer of the author's rights
- Document confirming the payment of fees

Granting:
- Five years from the filing date

Renewals:
- The first years period can be extended four times, each for four five years, upon payment of the renewal fees which can be pain in the last six months before the expiry date of the registration or within can be pain in the last six months before the expiry date

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:

.lt

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