INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS IN LAOS

Download  Copyright © 2023 KENFOX LEGAL BASIS Law on Intellectual Property No. 38/NA dated 15 November 2017; Decision on Industrial Design No. 35/MOST dated 20 January 2021. DEFINITION 1. What is an industrial design in Laos? The Law No. 38/LA on Intellectual Property (amended) dated 15 November 2017 (Lao IP Law) defines an industrial design as the form or shape of a product that needs to be created (including patterns, lines, colors, etc.). Specifically, an industrial design certificate protects a product’s special appearance which covers a pattern, a form, or an external feature of a novel product developed in Lao PDR, or elsewhere in the world, that...