Paraguay DINAPI Adopts the Fourteenth Edition of the Locarno Classification for Industrial Designs

Release Time：2024-07-24 09:15Author：Views：186

By Resolution 317/2024 of June 18, 2024, the Paraguay National Directorate of Intellectual Property (DINAPI) adopts the “Fourteenth Edition of the Locarno Classification for Industrial Designs”, administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Said resolution establishes that the international classifier will enter into force as from July 22 of the current year.

This new edition represents an advance, not only because of the inclusion of a new class, but also because new products are added in most of the classes, in response to the advances in technology and innovation in industrial matters.

Among the main novelties in this version, electronic cigarettes and other electronic smoking articles are included in class 27, subclass 07, and the new class 32 covers “graphic symbols and logos, surface patterns, ornamentation, interior and exterior arrangement”.

The Locarno Classification for Industrial Designs offers significant advantages because it establishes a unified system for industrial design applications in all countries that are part of the Locarno Agreement, which considerably simplifies the process since all participating states use the same criteria and terminologies, facilitating the comparison and search of existing designs, to verify the novelty and inventive step of new applications.

This new edition is adopted within the framework of the implementation of the strategic commitments and the improvement of the services provided by the Directorate General of Industrial Property.

The fourteenth edition of the Locarno Classification for Industrial Designs” is published in the digital page of DINAPI.

Information resource: https://www.dinapi.gov.py/portal/v3/noticias/detalle-noticia?idNoticia=437

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