San Marino IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names

San Marino is a country in the Apennine Mountains. It is a landlocked enclave, completely surrounded by Italy. One of the European microstates, San Marino has the smallest population of all the members of the Council of Europe.

San Marino is the oldest sovereign state and constitutional republic in the world, having been founded on 3 September 301 by Marinus of Rab, a Christian stonemason fleeing the religious persecution of Roman Emperor Diocletian.

The Constitution of San Marino, enacted in 1600, is the world's oldest constitution still in effect.

General Information

Capital:

City of San Marino

Population:

30 Thousand

Languages:

Italian

Government Type:

Parliamentary republic

Dialing Code:

+378

Timezone:

GMT +1

Monetary Unit:

Euro (€) (EUR)

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San Marino

International Arrangements

WIPO Convention
Paris Convention (Industrial Property)
PCT (Patents)
PLT (Patent Law Treaty)
Madrid Agreement (False or Deceptive Indications of Source on Goods)
Madrid Agreement (International Registration of Marks)
Madrid Protocol (International Registration of Marks)
Nairobi Treaty (Olympic Symbol)
WTO: Not a Member.

Patents

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

Filing requirements:
- Power of attorney;
- Specification in Italian;
- Appointment of inventor(term for late filing: two months);
- Drawings in triplicate, and one file copy;
- Certified copy of foreign application
- Assignment of priority rights to be executed before the filing date in San Marino, only if the applicant in San Marino is other than the applicant abroad.

Granting:
- Twenty years from the filing date;

Renewals:
- Information was not found;

Trademarks

Filing requirements:
- 15 prints(also for word marks);

Granting:
- Ten years from the filing date;

Renewals:
- Renewable for subsequent ten years term;

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:

.sm

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San Marino IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names