Offices

Montenegro

PETOŠEVIĆ Montenegro

Crnogorskih serdara b.b. 1st floor, Apartment No.4 81000 Podgorica Montenegro

Tel: + 382 20 621 320

Fax: + 382 20 634 421

Contact

Jasna Jusić: Director – Montenegro Office

Latest Article

Rising Out of The Ashes: Protecting Your Trademark Portfolio in The Developing Economies of Serbia & Montenegro

By Kathryn Szymczyk, SD PETOSEVIC, Balkan Regional Office.

Serbia and Montenegro were the heart of the former Yugoslavia and arguably continue to be the centre of the region even today. Serbia and Montenegro are actually a loose federation of two regions, Serbia and Montenegro. Both have their own legislatures and, to some extent, different laws and institutions. For example, Montenegro has recently adopted its own “Law on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights” (Official Gazette of Montenegro No. 45/2005) but continues to enforce the same laws as Serbia with respect to IP rights generally. To add to the complication of the region, Kosovo is also struggling to assert its independence by passing its own laws and trying to establish its own institutions. To properly enforce IP rights in the federation of Serbia and Montenegro, the situation in all three of these regions must be taken into consideration.

Serbia, after the wars and the economic set backs of the 1990s has worked hard in the last several years to bring its IP laws and institutions into line with international treaties, conventions and agreements. This has made it more and more possible to effectively enforce trademark rights in this jurisdiction. However, there are certain things to be kept in mind when devising a strategy for protecting your trademark portfolio in this region.

International Conventions

Paris Convention, WIPO, PCT, Madrid Agreement, Nice Agreement, Berne Convention (Copyright), Locarno Agreement (Industrial designs), Madrid Protocol, Hague Agreement (Industrial Designs), Budapest Treaty, Lisbon Agreement, Rome Convention, TLT, CT, PPT and WTO

MINIMAL FILING REQUIREMENTS

Patent Applications

Applicant data
Name, address and occupation of the inventor
Priority application data
Patent specification and claims

Trade/Service Mark Applications

Applicant data
Priority application data
List of goods/services
At least one representation of the mark (in color if claimed)

Industrial Design Applications

Applicant data
Priority application data
At least one drawing or photograph of the claimed model or design

All other documents may be filed subsequently. Powers of attorney and declarations need not be legalized or notarized unless requested by the Patent and Trademark Office.

Some documents may require translation into Serbian.

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