SEIMAS

SEIMAS 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
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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. ÈESLOVAS JURÐËNAS Seimas Speaker Republic of Lithuania Vilnius 18 January 1994 No.I-373 ____________