UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION
 
Consolidated version as in force on September 1, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
 
LAW
 
ON DESIGNS
 
 
7 November 2002  No. IX
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1181
 
Vilnius
 
 
CHAPTER I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
 
Article 1. Purpose of the Law
 
1. This Law shall establish the procedure for legal protection, registration and use of an industrial 
design (hereinafter: a ‘design’) in the Republic of Lithuania, as well as the maintenance of the Design 
Register of the Republic of Lithuania.
 
2. The prov
isions of this Law are in compliance with the legal acts of the European Union 
referred to in the Annex to this Law.
 
 
Article 2. Main Definition of the Law
 
1. 
“Design”
 
means the appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features 
of,
 
in particular, the lines, contours, colours, shape, texture and/or materials of the product itself and/or 
its ornamentation.
 
2. 
“Product”
 
means any industrial or handicraft item, including parts intended to be assembled 
into a complex product, packaging, 
get
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up, graphic symbols and typographic typefaces, but excluding 
computer programs.
 
3. 
“Complex product”
 
means a product which is composed of components which can be 
replaced permitting disassembly and reassembly of the product (collections of items, compo
sition).
 
4. 
“Person” 
means a natural or legal person.
 
5. “
Application
” means a package of documents to be presented to the State Patent Bureau of 
the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter: ‘the State Patent Bureau’) according to the procedure prescribed 
by th
is Law by the applicant in order to have his design registered.
  
 
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6. 
“Designer” 
means a natural person (author) who has created a design.
 
7. “
Applicant
” means a person or a group of persons in whose name the application for the 
registration of a design is 
filed.
 
8. “
Patent attorney
” means a natural person whose name appears on the Register of Patent 
Attorneys of the Republic of Lithuania according to the procedure established in the Patent Attorney 
Statute approved by the Government of the Republic of Lithu
ania. 
 
Paragraph 8 will become invalid as of 1 May 2018
 
9. “
Design holder
” means the holder of a design registered in the Republic of Lithuania in the 
manner laid down by this Law.
 
10. “
Licence
” means consent of the design holder (licenser) to another pers
on (licensee) to use 
a registered design under the terms of a licensing contract.
 
11. “
Sublicense
” means the licensee’s consent to another person to use a design under the terms 
of a sublicensing contract.
 
12. “
International exhibition
” means an international exhibition which is official or officially 
recognised according to the Convention relating to International Exhibitions, adopted in Paris on 22 
November 1928, as last revised on 30 November 1972. 
 
13. “
International registration of
 
designs
” means registration of a design in the International 
Register of the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (hereinafter: the 
‘International Bureau’) under the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the Internat
ional 
Registration of Industrial Designs (hereinafter: the ‘Geneva Act’), adopted at Geneva on 2 July 1999.
 
14. 
‘’International application’’
 
means an application for international registration filed in 
compliance with the requirements of the Geneva Act an
d 
Common Regulations Under the 1999 Act, 
the 1960 Act and the 1934 Act of the Hague Agreement 
(hereinafter: the ‘Hague Agreement’) in 
accordance with the procedure laid down by these legal acts.
 
15. “
Paris Convention
” means the Paris Convention for the Pro
tection of Industrial Property 
of 20 March 1883 (with all effective supplements and amendments).
 
16. “
Locarno Classification
” means the international classification for industrial designs under 
the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classifica
tion for Industrial Designs of 8 October 
1968 (with all effective supplements and amendments).
 
17. “
Regulations
” means Regulations for the Registration of Designs approved by the Director 
of the State Patent Bureau.
 
18. “
Community design
” means a design in
 
respect of which registration is applied for or which 
is registered pursuant to the Regulation on Community designs.
  
 
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19. “
Regulation on Community designs
” means Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 
December 2001 on Community designs.
 
 
Article 3. Scope 
of Application
 
1. This Law shall apply to every design for which registration is sought in the application filed 
at the State Patent Bureau or which is registered in the manner prescribed by this Law.
 
2. A design which is the subject of international regis
tration of the design, in effect in the 
Republic of Lithuania, shall be protected under the Geneva Act. 
 
 
CHAPTER II. PROTECTION OF THE DESIGN
 
 
Article 4. Protection Requirements
 
1. The legal protection shall be granted to the design registered in the Desi
gn Register of the 
Republic of Lithuania, unless otherwise provided for in international treaties.
 
2. A design shall be registered and protected in the manner prescribed by this Law to the extent 
that it is new and has individual character.
 
3. A design reg
istered under this Law shall also be eligible for protection under the law of 
copyright, provided it is fixed in any objective form.
 
 
Article 5. Novelty
 
1. A design shall be considered new if no identical design has been made available to the public 
before the date of filing of the application or, if priority is claimed, the date of priority. 
 
2. Designs shall be deemed to be identical if their features di
ffer only in immaterial details.
 
 
Article 6. Individual Character
 
1. A design shall be considered to have individual character if the overall impression it produces 
on the informed user differs from the overall impression produced on such a user by any des
ign which 
has been made available to the public before the date of filing of the application for registration or, if 
priority is claimed, the date of priority.
 
2. In assessing individual character, the degree of freedom of the designer in developing the 
de
sign shall be taken into consideration.
 
 
Article 7. Novelty and Individual Character of Component Parts of a Product
  
 
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1. A design of a component part of a complex product shall only be considered to be new and 
to have individual character:
 
1) if the compone
nt part, once it has been incorporated into the complex product, remains visible 
during normal use of the latter, and
 
2) to the extent that those visible features of the component part fulfil in themselves the 
requirements as to novelty and individual char
acter.
 
2. Normal use within the meaning of subparagraph 1 of paragraph 1 shall mean use by the end 
user, excluding maintenance, servicing or repair work.
 
 
Article 8. Disclosure 
 
1. A design shall be deemed to have been made available to the public if:
 
1) following registration it has been published in the Official Bulletin of the State Patent Bureau 
or any other publication, or exhibited;
 
2) it has been used in trade or otherwise disclosed.
 
2. The design for which protection is claimed shall not be deem
ed to have been made available 
to the public:
 
1) if under the circumstances specified in paragraph 1 of this Article it has not become known 
in the normal course of business to the circles specialised in the sector concerned, operating within the 
European 
Community, before the date of filing of the application or, if priority is claimed, the date of 
priority;
 
2) if it has been disclosed to a third person under explicit or implicit conditions of confidentiality.
 
3. The design for which protection is claimed 
shall not be deemed to have been made available 
to the public, if information relating to it has been disseminated during the 12
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month period preceding 
the date of filing of the application or, when priority is claimed, the date of priority and if informat
ion 
has been disseminated:
 
1) by the designer, his successor in title, or a any other person as a result of information provided 
or action taken by the designer or his successor in title;
 
2) as a consequence of an abuse of the rights of the designer or his
 
successor in title by the 
actions of another person.
 
 
Article 9. Grounds for Refusal of Registration of a Design or Invalidation of its 
Registration
  
 
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A design shall be refused registration, or, if the design has been registered, the 
registration shall 
be declared invalid:
 
1) if the appearance of a product may not be regarded as a design within the meaning of 
paragraph 1 of Article 2 of this Law;
 
2) if a design, its use or making available to the public is contrary to public policy or 
to accepted 
principles of morality;
 
3) if a design incorporates the official or traditional (abbreviated) State name of the Republic of 
Lithuania, armorial bearings, flag or other State heraldic objects, or any mark imitating them, also 
warranty signs and 
hallmarks, stamps, decorations or badges of awards, unless the authorization for 
their use in a design has been issued according to the established procedure by an institution authorised 
by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania;
 
4) if a design incorp
orates armorial bearings, flags or other official emblems of other states or 
international organisations the use of which has not been authorised by the competent authorities of 
such states or international organisations pursuant to Article 6
ter
 
of the Par
is Convention.
 
 
Article 10. Other Grounds for Invalidation of Registration of a Design
 
1. The registration of a design shall be declared invalid:
 
1) if it does not fulfil the requirements of Article 4 to 8 of this Law;
 
2) if the design is registered in the
 
name of a person who is not entitled to it;
 
3) the design is identical with a prior design which is registered or applied for registration and 
which has been made available to the public after the date of filing of the application or, if priority is 
claim
ed, the date of priority;
 
4) if a component of the design is a prior design which is registered or applied for registration;
 
5) a trade mark, a name of a legal person the proprietor of which is another person, is 
incorporated in the design without the cons
ent of such person;
 
6) if the design constitutes the use of a work protected under the copyright law without the 
authorization of the author or his successor in title;
 
7) if the features of appearance of a product are solely dictated by its technical funct
ion;
 
8) if the features of appearance of a product are solely dictated by the necessity to reproduce the 
product in the exact form and dimensions in order to permit the product in which the design is 
incorporated or to which it is applied to be mechanicall
y connected to or placed in, around or against 
another product so that the product so produced may perform its function.
  
 
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2. For the purposes of subparagraphs 3 and 4 of paragraph 1 of this Article, a “prior design” 
shall mean:
 
1) a design the date of filin
g of application for registration in the Republic of Lithuania of 
which is prior to the date of filing of application for registration of the design specified in paragraph 1 
of this Article, taking account, where appropriate, of the priorities granted or c
laimed in respect of that 
design;
 
2) a design the date of registration of which under the Geneva Act in respect of the Republic of 
Lithuania is earlier than the date of filing of application for registration of the design specified in 
paragraph 1 of this A
rticle, or, if priority is claimed, earlier than the date of priority;
 
3) a Community design the date of filing of the application for which under the Regulation on 
Community designs is prior to the date of filing of the application for a design referred t
o in paragraph 
1 of this Article or, if priority is claimed, the date of priority.
 
3. The provisions of subparagraph 8 of paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply, if a design 
subsists in a design serving the purpose of allowing the multiple assembly or
 
connection of mutually 
interchangeable products.
 
 
Article 11. Priority
 
1. The application may contain a request to grant priority on the basis of one or more first 
applications filed for the registration of the same design in the State which is a 
party to the Paris 
Convention or a member of the World Trade Organisation, if the applicant or his successor in title files 
an application to the State Patent Bureau within a period of six months from the date of filing of the 
first application or applicat
ions.
 
2. The application may contain a request to grant priority of the date on which the design was 
first exhibited at an international exhibition, if the application is filed with the State Patent Bureau 
within a period of six months from the date of the
 
first display of the design at the exhibition.
 
3. An applicant who intends to benefit from the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article 
must submit before the State Patent Bureau a certified copy of the first application (applications) or a 
certif
icate issued by the administration of the international exhibition at which the design was first 
exhibited. These documents may be submitted together with other application documents or within 
three months from the date of filling of the application.
 
4. If
 
the State Patent Bureau finds that the requirements under paragraph 3 of this Article have 
not been fulfilled, the request referred to in paragraphs 1 or 2 of this Article shall be considered not to 
have been made. 
  
 
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Article 12. Persons Entitled to the De
sign Right
 
1. A designer who has created a design shall be entitled to personal moral rights and the right to 
register a design in his own name. The right to register a design may be inherited or transferred to third 
persons 
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successors in title.
 
2. The p
erson in whose name a design has been registered shall be entitled to the exclusive 
design right.
 
3. The exclusive design right shall be held by:
 
1) a designer, provided that such a right has not been transferred;
 
2) a successor in title, provided that such a right has been inherited or transferred to him;
 
3) an employer or client when a design is a service design, unless otherwise provided for in the 
contract.
 
4. If a person who is not entitled to the design right 
under paragraph 3 of this Article, files an 
application for registration of a design or registers such a design in his own name, a designer or his 
successor in title shall have the right to request that the application for registration of the design or 
des
ign itself be reregistered in his own name.
 
5. If two or more persons have jointly developed a design, they shall be considered to be co
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authors and the right to the design shall vest in them jointly, unless otherwise agreed by them. A person, 
who has rend
ered only material, technical or organisational assistance in the development of a design, 
shall not be considered to be a designer.
 
6. Where two or more designers have developed the same design independently of each other, 
the right to the design shall ve
st in the designer who first filed an application with the State Patent 
Bureau or who has earlier priority to this design as long as his application has not been later withdrawn 
or deemed to be withdrawn.
 
 
Article 13. Service Design
 
1. A design shall be de
emed to be a service design, if it has been developed under at least one 
of the following conditions:
 
1) during the execution of an employment contract which provides for the development of a 
design; 
 
2) following concrete instructions (on order) under the
 
contract in the course of designing, 
constructing, scientific research or creation of technologies;
  
 
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3) when making use of the experience accumulated by an enterprise, agency or organisation, or 
its technologies and equipment.
 
2. The employee who developed
 
a service design must immediately inform the employer in 
writing. Until the filing of an application, the employer and the employee may not disclose the design.
 
3. Upon registration of a design in the name of the employer, he must pay remuneration to the 
designer. The amount of such remuneration shall depend on the economic value of the design and any 
benefit derived by the employer from the utilisation of this de
sign. The conditions of remuneration and 
the payment thereof shall be established in a remuneration agreement which is signed by the employer 
and the designer, and which is concluded not later than within six months following the issuing of a 
certificate o
f registration of the design or within one year of the beginning of the use of the design, if 
the beginning of the use of the design is prior to the issuing of the certificate of registration of the design. 
If the employer fails to fulfil the contractual r
equirements or the said contract is not concluded within 
the aforementioned time limits, the designer shall be entitled to appeal to the court to be recognised as 
a design holder of a service design.
 
4. The provisions of paragraph 3 of this Article regardi
ng the payment of remuneration shall not 
apply, if the employment contract provides for the development of a design.
 
5. If no agreement exists between the parties regarding the remuneration, the amount of 
remuneration shall be established by the court.
 
6. 
The rights and duties of the employer and the employee, related to service designs, with the 
exception of the payment of remuneration, shall expire when the registration of the design is declared 
invalid or after one year of the termination of labour relat
ions. 
 
7. When a design is developed in the enterprise, agency or organisation which carries out works 
related to scientific research, designing, constructing and other creative activities pursuant to the 
contract with the client who finances such works, a
n exclusive right to the design shall be established 
in the said contract. If the client withdraws the right to the design or fails to inform the designer within 
four months about his intention to exercise such right, the right to the design shall be trans
ferred to the 
designer. 
 
 
Article 14. Designer’s Personal Moral Rights 
 
 
1. The names of a designer or designers (if two or more persons have jointly developed the 
design) must be indicated in an application and a certificate of registration of the design.
 
2. The State Patent Bureau, in publishing data concerning the registration of a design, must 
mention the names of the designer or designers.
  
 
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3. The designer shall enjoy the right to request to withhold his name. He must file a request to 
this effect with 
the State Patent Bureau. The State Patent Bureau must comply with this request.
 
4. A design may not be altered without the designer’s consent, unless otherwise provided for in 
the contract.  
 
 
Article 15. Information on a Design
 
 
A third person who uses a 
design for advertising, when marking goods or on their packages, or 
in any other form, must, at design holder’s request, indicate immediately that the design is registered or 
submitted for registration, as well as the number of registration or an applicati
on.
 
 
CHAPTER III. REGISTRATION OF DESIGN
 
 
Article 16. Filing of an Application
 
1. An applicant who wishes to register a design must file an application with the State Patent 
Bureau. The application for registration of a service design shall be filed with t
he State Patent Bureau 
in the name of an employer or a client. The applicant must pay a fixed fee for filing of the application
 
2. A representative of an applicant may also file an application. Natural persons of foreign states 
who are not permanent reside
nts of the Republic of Lithuania or any other EU Member State or any 
other state of the European Economic Area and legal persons of foreign states who do not have a branch 
office or representative office registered in the Republic of Lithuania, or a regist
ered office, a branch 
office or a representative office in any other EU Member State or any other state of the European 
Economic Area, shall file applications with the State Patent Bureau and perform all actions relating to 
the registration of the design w
ith the State Patent Bureau, including also representation at the Appeals 
Division, through the patent attorney of the Republic of Lithuania whose name appears on the Register 
of Patent Attorneys of the Republic of Lithuania. 
 
Valid as of 1 May 2018:
 
2. A 
representative of an applicant may also file an application. Natural persons of foreign states 
who are not permanent residents of the Republic of Lithuania or any other EU Member State or any 
other state of the European Economic Area and legal persons of f
oreign states who do not have a branch 
office or representative office registered in the Republic of Lithuania, or a registered office, a branch 
office or a representative office in any other EU Member State or any other state of the European 
Economic Area
, shall file applications with the State Patent Bureau and perform all actions relating to  
 
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the registration of the design with the State Patent Bureau, including also representation at the Appeals 
Division, through a patent attorney. 
 
3. One application ma
y request registration of more than one, but not more than one hundred of 
examples of the design of the same product. A product, except ornamentation, the examples of the 
design of which the application requests to register must belong to the same class of
 
the Locarno 
classification, with the exception of multifunctional products which may belong to more than one class 
of the Locarno according to their functions.
 
4. An application for the registration of a design shall contain:
 
1) a request for the registra
tion of a design and issuance of a design registration certificate signed 
by the applicant or his representative;
 
2) photographs or graphic representations of a design; 
 
3) description of a design; 
 
4) the power of attorney given to a person (where the 
application is filed by an authorised 
person);
 
5) a declaration concerning designer’s authorship;
 
6) a document confirming the transfer of the design rights (where appropriate);
 
7) a document confirming priority under paragraph 3 of Article 11 of this Law 
(where 
appropriate);
 
8) authorization granted by competent authorities under subparagraphs 3 or 4 of Article 9 of this 
Law (where appropriate); 
 
9) consent of the design holder according to subparagraphs 5 or 6 of paragraph 1 of Article 10 
of this Law (whe
re appropriate);
 
10) a request concerning an earlier date of publication of a design (where appropriate);
 
11) a request for deferment of publication of a design (where appropriate).
 
5. A request for the registration of a design and issuance of a 
design registration certificate shall 
contain:
 
1) information identifying the applicant and his representative, set out in the Regulations;
 
2) name of a product; 
 
3) the classes and subclasses of the Locarno classification;
 
4) information identifying the d
esigner, set out in the Regulations;
 
5) the state where the first application was filed, the number and date of such application or the 
date and state of display at an international exhibition (where appropriate). Indication of the said date  
 
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shall be consi
dered to be a request to be granted priority under paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 11 of this 
Law;
 
6) reference to earlier or deferred publication of a design;
 
7) evidence demonstrating that a fixed fee has been paid.
 
6. If registration of more than ten exam
ple of a design is applied for, a fixed additional fee shall 
be payable for each additional example of the design indicated in the application.
 
7. A fee for filing an application for registration of a design shall be paid by an applicant within 
one month o
f the filing thereof.
 
 
Article 17. Date of Filing of Application
 
1. The date of receipt by the State Patent Bureau of a request specified in subparagraph 1 of 
paragraph 4 of Article 16 of this Law, containing at least the information referred to in subpara
graphs 
1 to 3 of paragraph 5 of Article 16 of this Law, as well as the document specified in subparagraph 2 of 
paragraph 4 of Article 16 of this Law shall be considered the date of filing of the application.
 
2. In case of failure to submit the documents li
sted in paragraph 1 of this Article or if the said 
documents do not satisfy the requirements laid down in this Law or the Regulations, a date of filing 
shall not be accorded to the application and the application documents shall be returned to the applican
t 
with the grounds for the inadmissibility of the application indicated. A date of filing shall be deemed 
not to have been granted and the application documents shall be returned to the applicant, if the fee for 
the filing of the application for registrati
on of the design has not been paid within the time limit referred 
to in paragraph 7 of Article 16 of this Law.
 
3. An applicant shall acquire the right of seniority of a design from the date of filling of the 
application or, if priority is claimed, the date
 
of priority. From the said date to the date of issuance of a 
certificate of registration of the design, temporary legal protection shall be afforded for the design, 
during which claims may be invoked to another person, warning him about the possible infri
ngement 
of the rights provided for in Article 36 of this Law.
 
4. If an applicant has withdrawn his application or the design has not been registered, or it has 
been removed from the Register at the request of the holder of the design, or its registration i
s opposed 
by another person, the temporary legal protection provided for in paragraph 3 of this Article shall be 
deemed not to have been afforded for the design.
 
 
Article 18. Examination of Application
  
 
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1. The State Patent Bureau shall, within the time limit set out in the Regulations, conduct a 
formal examination of the application documents: check whether or not the documents specified in 
paragraph 4 of Article 16 of this Law have been filed.
 
2. The Sta
te Patent Bureau shall recognise an application as having been filed and shall accord 
to it a date of filing and a number, provided that the documents specified in paragraph 1 of Article 17 
of this Law have been filed.
 
3. Having performed the actions speci
fied in paragraph 2 of this Article, the State Patent Bureau 
shall supply the applicant or his representative with a notice of acceptance of the application wherein 
the date of filing of the application and the number accorded to it shall be indicated.
 
4. 
Having ascertained that the documents specified in subparagraphs 1
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8 of paragraph 4 of 
Article 16 of this Law have not been filed or that the said documents do not satisfy the requirements of 
this Law and the Regulations, the State Patent Bureau shall noti
fy the applicant or his representative in 
writing, pointing out the deficiencies and the suggestions how to remedy them. If the deficiencies are 
not remedied within the time limit set out in the Regulations, the State Patent Bureau shall recognise 
the docu
ment or the application as having not been filed and shall notify the applicant or his 
representative in writing. 
 
5. 
Having accorded the application a date of filing, a certified copy of the application may be 
issued, if the applicant submits a request to
 
this end and pays a fixed fee.
 
6. The requests referred to in subparagraphs 10 and 11 of paragraph 4 of Article 16 of this Law 
may be presented, when filing an application, in a form of a reference in a request for the registration 
of a design and issuanc
e of a design registration certificate pursuant to subparagraph 6 of paragraph 5 
of Article 16 of this Law, or within five months after the filing of the application.
 
 
Article 19. Examination of a Design
 
1. Having conducted an examination of the applicatio
n, the State Patent Bureau shall carry out 
an examination of the design with a view to ascertaining whether or not there are grounds for refusal of 
registration of a design, referred to in Article 9 of this Law.
 
2. Where, under Article 9 of this Law, a des
ign is not registrable, the State Patent Bureau shall 
adopt a decision to refuse the registration of the design. The decision must indicate grounds and reasons 
for the refusal of the registration of the design. Such decision shall be sent to the applicant 
or his 
representative within ten calendar days (hereinafter: ‘days’) from the adoption thereof. 
  
 
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3. The applicant or his representative shall have the right to submit to the State Patent Bureau 
within three months from the day of sending of the decision to
 
refuse registration a written request for 
a re
-
 
examination.
 
4. Having received a request for a re
-
examination and upon examining the arguments submitted 
by the applicant, the State Patent Bureau shall conduct a re
-
examination and adopt one of the followi
ng 
decisions:
 
1) to declare the previous decision invalid and to register the design;
 
2) to leave valid the decision to refuse registration of the design.
 
5. The State Patent Bureau shall send the decision adopted pursuant to paragraph 4 of this Article 
to
 
the applicant or his representative within ten days from the adoption thereof. 
 
6. Having established that the design is assigned to the wrong class of the Locarno classification 
or that a class is not indicated, the State Patent Bureau shall assign the d
esign to an appropriate class or 
designate it, and shall notify the applicant or his representative about it in writing.
 
 
Article 20. Filing of Appeal
 
1. An applicant or his representative who objects to the decision adopted by the State Patent 
Bureau to r
efuse registration of a design, shall have the right to file with the Appeals Division of the 
State Patent Bureau (hereinafter: the ‘Appeals Division’), within three months from the sending of the 
decision, a written appeal with a substantiated request for
 
a review of the findings of the examination. 
A fee must be paid in accordance with the procedure laid down by legal acts for the filing of an appeal. 
 
2. Following the examination of the appeal, the Appeals Division shall adopt one of the 
following decisi
ons:
 
1) to grant the appeal and to adopt a decision to register the design in respect of all or some of 
the design examples;
 
2) to dismiss the appeal and to uphold the decision to refuse the registration of the design. 
 
3. Where the applicant or his 
representative objects to the decision of the Appeals Division, he 
shall have the right to appeal against that decision to the Vilnius Regional Court within six months from 
the date of adoption thereof.
 
 
Article 21. Registration of a Design
 
1. Upon ascertaining that there are no grounds for refusal of registration of the design, referred 
to in Article 9 of this Law, or when the appeal is granted pursuant to the procedure established by Article 
20 of this Law, the State Patent Bureau shall ado
pt a decision to register the design and shall, within ten  
 
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days from the date of adoption of the decision, send to the applicant or his representative this decision 
and instruction to pay the fee fixed for registration, publication of the design, and the i
ssuance of a 
registration certificate.
 
2. After the applicant or his representative pays a fixed fee, the design shall be entered in the 
Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania. Information about the entry of the design in the said 
Register shall be p
ublished in the Official Bulletin of the State Patent Bureau.
 
3. The design shall be registered and published not earlier than after 6 months from the date of 
filling of the application. At the request of the applicant or his representative, a design may b
e registered 
and published prior to the expiration of this period of time.
 
4. At the request of t
he applicant or his representative, publication in 
the Official Bulletin 
of the State Patent Bureau 
of information about the entry of a design in the Design Re
gister of the 
Republic of Lithuania may be deferred for a period of up to 30 months from the date of filing the 
application or, if a priority is claimed, from the date of priority.
 
 
Article 22. Withdrawal and Separation of the Application
 
1. If the applica
nt or his representative fails to pay the fixed fee within three months from the 
day of sending of the decision to register the design, the application shall be deemed withdrawn on the 
decision of the State Patent Bureau.
 
2. Within ten days from the adopti
on of the decision that the application shall be deemed 
withdrawn the State Patent Bureau shall send the decision to the applicant or his representative.
 
3. The applicant or his representative shall have the right to withdraw his application or decrease 
th
e number of design examples contained therein at any stage of examination of the application or the 
design.
 
4. The applicant or his representative shall have the right, at any stage of examination of the 
application containing more than one design example 
or examination of the design, to submit a request 
to separate the design examples into several independent applications The filing date of the initial 
application shall be established for each independent application and, if priority is claimed or has been
 
granted, the priority date of the initial application.
 
5. A fee shall be paid for each independent application as for a newly filed application.
 
 
Article 23. Opposition to Registration of a Design
 
1. Within a period of three months following the publicati
on of the registered design in the 
Official Bulletin of the State Patent Bureau, the persons specified in Article 44 of this Law may, on the  
 
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grounds of Articles 9 and (or) 10 of this Law, oppose the registration of the design by submitting to the 
Appeals D
ivision a justified written opposition. 
 
2. The filing of opposition shall be subject to the payment of the fixed fee. 
 
3. The Appeals Division shall verify within fourteen days from the day of receipt of the 
opposition whether the opposition complies with
 
the requirements of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article. 
Where the opposition is filed according to the procedure laid down in this Law and the Regulations and 
complies with the aforementioned requirements, the Appeals Division shall accept the opposition 
as 
admissible and shall communicate one copy of the opposition to the holder of the design against which 
the opposition is filed or his representative.
 
4. The holder of the design against which opposition is filed or his representative must within 
three mo
nths from the date of sending of the opposition file a justified reply to the opposition. Failure 
to file a justified reply to the opposition shall be considered as refusal of the design holder or his 
representative to participate in the consideration of t
he opposition and this not prevent the Appeals 
Division from considering the opposition. 
 
5. Following the examination of the opposition, the Appeals Division shall adopt one of the 
following decisions: 
 
1) to satisfy the opposition and to make a decision 
to declare invalid the registration of the design 
in respect of all or some of the design examples;
 
2) to reject the opposition and leave the registration of the design valid.
 
6. The design holder against which opposition is filed or his representative, or
 
the person who 
filed the opposition or his representative, who did not attend the opposition examination proceedings, 
shall be within one month from the day of making of the decision communicated the decision in writing 
with a copy of decision attached to
 
the communication. 
 
7. The decision made by the Appeals Division may be appealed against to the Vilnius Regional 
Court within six months from the day of adoption thereof.
 
8. Decisions made by the Appeals Division shall be published in the Official Bulleti
n of the 
State Patent Bureau.
 
 
Article 24. Procedure for Examination of Appeals and Opposition at the State Patent 
Bureau
 
1. Appeals and oppositions shall be examined at a meeting of the Appeals Division in 
accordance with the written or public oral 
procedure.
  
 
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2. Generally, appeals and oppositions shall be examined in accordance with the written 
procedure. When appeals and oppositions are examined in accordance with the written procedure, an 
applicant, a person specified in Article 
44
 
of this Law, a h
older of a design against which the opposition 
is filed or their representatives shall not be invited to a meeting of the Appeals Division and the 
examination shall be conducted without their participation.
 
3. Appeals and oppositions shall be examined in a
ccordance with the oral procedure only in 
exceptional cases, when the dispute is complicated or pivotal in shaping a new practice of the Appeals 
Division. When appeals or oppositions are examined in accordance with the oral procedure, an applicant 
a person
 
specified in Article 
44
 
of this Law, a holder of a design against which the opposition is filed 
or their representatives shall be invited to a meeting of the Appeals Division, however, their failure to 
attend a meeting does not prevent from examining appe
als or oppositions.
 
4. The procedure for examining appeals and oppositions shall be laid down in the Regulations 
for Appeal and Opposition Examination approved by the Director of the State Patent Bureau.
 
 
Article 25. Certificate of Registration of a Design
 
1. The State Patent Bureau shall issue a registration certificate to the holder of a registered design 
or his representative, if opposition has not been filed in accordance with the procedure laid down in 
Article 23 of this Law or if opposition has been r
ejected or registration of the design in respect of some 
of the design examples has been declared invalid pursuant to paragraph 5 of Article 23 of this Law. 
 
2. The form of the certificate of registration of a design and the data recorded therein shall be 
established by the State Patent Bureau. 
 
3. The certificate of registration of a design shall be a legal document certifying the entry of the 
design in the Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania and the exclusive rights of the design holder 
to the 
registered design.
 
4. If the design holder loses the certificate of registration of a design, he shall be issued a 
duplicate of the certificate at his request and upon the payment of a fixed fee. 
 
Article 26. Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania
 
1.
 
The Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania is a state register. The Ministry of Justice 
of the Republic of Lithuania shall be the manager of the Register and the State Patent Bureau shall be 
the administrator of the Register. The Government of the R
epublic of Lithuania may appoint an 
additional administrator of the Register.
  
 
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2. The procedure for collecting, amassing, processing, systemising, storing, using, and providing 
documents and data relating to designs shall be established by the Statute of th
e Design Register of the 
Republic of Lithuania approved by the Government.
 
 
Article 27. Data of the Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania 
 
1. The following data shall be recorded and gathered in the Design Register of the Republic of 
Lithuania:
 
1) d
ate of filing of the application and its file number;
 
2) name of a design product and its class (subclass) according to the Locarno classification;
 
3) reproduction of a design and the number of examples; 
 
4) date of registration of the design and its file 
number;
 
5) the applicant’s name or personal name, surname and address (headquarters);
 
6) personal name, surname and address (headquarters) of the designer;
 
7) name or personal name, surname and address (headquarters) of the design holder;
 
8) date of expiry
 
of registration;
 
9) priority date, first application file number, code of the state, provided that priority has been 
given under paragraph 1 of Article 11 of this Law;
 
10) name of the exhibition, date of display of the design, provided that priority has b
een given 
under paragraph 2 of Article 11 of this Law;
 
11) personal name, surname, address (headquarters) of the representative (where he has been 
appointed);
 
12) other data relating to the registration, use and protection of the design;
 
13) grounds for 
and date of changing the data.
 
2. All natural and legal persons shall have the right to use the data of the Design Register of the 
Republic of Lithuania according to the procedure laid down by the Statute of the Design Register of the 
Republic of Lithuania
.
 
3. The State Patent Bureau shall issue extracts from the Design Register of the Republic of 
Lithuania at the request of any person who has paid the fixed fee.
 
Article 27 of this Law becomes invalid as of 1 July 2017
 
  
 
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Article 28. Inspection of Application
 
Files
 
1. Design application files and data pertaining to the claimed design shall not be made available 
to the public prior to the publication of the design in the Official Bulletin of the State Patent Bureau in 
the manner prescribed by Article 21 of this
 
Law.
 
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply if:
 
1) the applicant gives a written consent to a third person to inspect the application files and data;
 
2) information on the filed applications is requested by the court and other St
ate institutions 
which are entitled to obtain restricted information in the manner prescribed by legal acts;
 
3) if opposition has been filed against the registration of a design on the basis of a prior design 
application, and the holder of the design again
st which the opposition has been filed submits a written 
request to disclose the documents and data pertaining to the earlier application.   
 
3. Where an application is, in accordance with Article 18 of this Law, deemed not to have been 
filed or is, in acc
ordance with paragraphs 1 to 3 of Article 22, deemed to have been withdrawn, 
inspection of it shall be possible only upon written consent of the person who has filed such application.
 
 
Article 29. Recording of Changes in the Application and in the Design R
egister of the 
Republic of Lithuania
 
 
1. The applicant, the design holder or his representative must notify the State Patent Bureau of:
 
1) changes in the name or personal name, surname or address (headquarters) of the designer, the 
applicant or the design 
holder;
 
2) changes of the representative of the applicant or design holder, or his address (headquarters);
 
3) an amended form of the design applied for registration or of the registered design, if the 
design registration has been declared invalid pursuant 
to Article 9 of this Law, and, in the opinion of 
the State Patent Bureau, in that form the design complies with the requirements laid down in this Law 
and the identity of the design is retained;
 
4) limitation of the list of design examples;
 
5) the full or 
partial change of the applicant or the design holder;
 
6) the need to correct technical errors. 
 
2. Requesting for change to be recorded in the application or in the Design Register of the 
Republic of Lithuania, the applicant, the design holder or their rep
resentative shall submit the following 
documents:
 
1) request for recording changes in the application or in the Design Register of the Republic of 
Lithuania;
  
 
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2) documents substantiating the request where the recording of the changes specified in 
subparagra
phs 5 or 6 of paragraph 1 of this Article is requested;
 
3) a document certifying the payment of the fixed fee.
 
3. Following the receipt of the documents specified in paragraph 2 of this Article, the State 
Patent Bureau shall verify them within one month from the date of receipt and record the change in the 
application or in the Design Register of the Republic of Li
thuania, provided that they meet the 
requirements laid down by this Law and the Regulations.
 
4. The change shall become valid from the day of its recording. A notice of the change in the 
Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania shall be 
published in the Official Bulletin of the State 
Patent Bureau.
 
5. Technical error made by the State Patent Bureau shall be corrected free of charge.
 
6. When registering an amended form of the design, specified in subparagraph 3 of paragraph 1 
of this Artic
le, it shall be indicated in the Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania that the change 
is entered:
 
1) on the initiative of the design holder;
 
2) upon withdrawal of part of the rights by the design holder;
 
3) by a court decision.   
 
 
Article 30. Remo
val of a Design from the Register 
 
1. A design shall be removed from the Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania if:
 
1) the Appeals Division declares the registration of the design invalid according to the procedure 
laid down in Article 23 of this Law
;
 
2) the registration of the design is declared invalid by a court decision;
 
3) the registration of the design has not been renewed according to the procedure laid down in 
Article 35 of this Law;
 
4) the design holder requests for the design to be removed f
rom the Register.
 
2. The State Patent Bureau shall remove the design from the Design Register of the Republic of 
Lithuania following the receipt of one of the following documents:
 
1) effective court decision to declare the registration of the design invali
d;
 
2) a written request of the design holder.
 
3. After the Appeals Division takes a decision to declare the registration of a design invalid, or 
in case of failure to renew the registration of the design according to the procedure laid down in Article 
35 o
f this Law, the design shall be removed from the Register on the initiative of the State Patent Bureau.
  
 
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4. A notice of removal of the design from the Register shall be published in the Official Bulletin 
of the State Patent Bureau.
 
 
Article 31. Requirements
 
for the Documents Filed to the State Patent Bureau 
 
1. Documents must be filed to the State Patent Bureau in the state language. If the documents, 
except for the application for the registration of a design and for the issuance of a certificate of 
registr
ation of a design, are filed in a language which is not the state language, the applicant, the design 
holder or his representative must within three months from the day of filing of the documents submit 
the documents translated into the state language.
 
2. 
The power of attorney to represent the applicant or the design holder must be issued in in the 
simple written form.
 
3.  Documents filed to the State Patent Bureau shall be exempt from all legalisation.
 
4. Specific requirements of the application and other 
documents shall be established by the 
Regulations. 
 
5. A document shall be deemed not to have been filed and the act shall be deemed not to have 
been performed if the applicant, the design holder or his representative fails to submit the documents 
within t
he time limit set in this Law or the documents have been executed not in accordance with the 
requirements. 
 
 
Article 32. Time Limit
 
1. Where an applicant or his representative files a written request and pays a fixed fee for the 
renewal of a time limit, th
e time limits provided for in paragraph 4 of
 
Article 18, paragraph 3 of Article 
19, paragraph 1 of
 
Article 20, paragraph 1 of Article 22, paragraph 1 of Article 31, and paragraphs 1 
and 2 of Article 33
4
 
of this Law may be renewed once, but for not longer t
han two months from the date 
of expiry of the initial time limit. 
 
2. Upon payment of the fee for the renewal of the time limit, the applicant, the design holder
 
or 
his representative may, not later than within two months from the date of expiry of the initial time limit, 
submit an application for the renewal of the missed time limit. The time period shall be renewed on the 
decision of the State Patent Bureau.
 
3. 
The time limit, fixed in paragraph 1 of Article 22, which has been missed by the applicant, 
may be reinstated upon payment by the applicant of the fixed fee and filing of the following documents:
 
1) a substantiated request to reinstate the missed time limi
t;
 
2) a document stating the grounds of missing of the time limit.
  
 
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4. Reinstatement specified in paragraph 3 of this Article shall be granted, if the documents are 
submitted within two months from the moment the circumstances on the grounds whereof the app
licant 
failed to timely pay the fixed fee ceased to exist, but not later than within one year from the end of the 
time limit which had to be observed. Reinstatement of the time limit shall be granted on the decision of 
the State Patent Bureau.
 
5. Refusal t
o renew or reinstate the time limit may be appealed against to the court in the manner 
prescribed by the law.
 
6. 
In the event of declaration of a state of emergency or a state
-
level situation of emergency or 
quarantine throughout the territory of the Republic of Lithuania and the resulting restrictions on free 
movement of persons or freedom of economic activities, th
e time limits for fulfillment of actions 
established by this law except for the deadlines for fulfillment of actions of the State Patent Bureau 
shall be suspended. When the restrictions are revoked, the time limits shall be resumed. Information on 
suspensi
on and resumption of the time limits shall be published on the website of the State Patent 
Bureau. 
 
RLA note
. The suspension of the time limits referred to in paragraph 6 herein above shall be applicable to the time limits 
which have not expired before ado
ption of Resolution No 207 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 14 March 
2020 “On Declaring Quarantine on the Territory of the Republic of Lithuania” and the time limits which started after entry 
into force of the afore
-
mentioned resolution. 
 
Supplemented with the paragraph of this Article 
 
No 
XIII
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D code 
2020
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Article 33. Fees
 
The amount of fees, specific actions for which fees are payable, the procedure for paying the 
fees shall be established by the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Fees for the Registration of 
Industrial Property Objects.
 
 
CHAPTER III
1
 
INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF A DESIGN
 
 
Article 33
1
. Validity of International Registration of a Design
 
1. International registration of a design, which designates the Republic of Lithuania, shall, from 
the date of registration pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 10 of the Geneva Act, have the same legal 
protection as a design 
in respect of which registration
 
is applied for in accordance with the procedure 
laid down by this Law.
  
 
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2. Where following the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 33
2
 
of this Law, validity of the 
international registration of a design in the Republic of Lithuania has not been refused or
 
where such 
refusal has been later withdrawn, the international registration of a design shall, from the date indicated 
in paragraph 1 of this Article, have the same legal protection as a design which has been registered 
pursuant to the provisions of this 
Law.
 
3. Data concerning the international registration of a design shall be published in the 
International Designs Bulletin of the International Bureau.
 
4. The State Patent Bureau shall record in the Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania the 
data co
ncerning the international registration of a design, in which the Republic of Lithuania is 
designated.
 
 
Article 33
2
. Invalidation of International Registration of a Design
 
1. Where all or part of examples of a design that is the subject of the 
international registration 
do not meet the requirements of Article 9 of this Law or where an opposition to the international 
registration of a design is filed in accordance with the procedure laid down by this Law, the State Patent 
Bureau shall, within a p
eriod and in a manner prescribed by the Regulations under the Hague 
Agreement, communicate to the International Bureau a notification of refusal of the validity of the 
international registration of a design in the Republic of Lithuania, stating all the gro
unds on which the 
refusal is based. Such a
 
refusal may be withdrawn, in part or in whole, at any time by the
 
State Patent 
Bureau.
 
2. Where the international registration in respect of all or part of examples of a design in the 
Republic of Lithuania has bee
n declared invalid, the State Patent Bureau shall notify the International 
Bureau about this.
 
3. The international registration of a design shall be invalid in the Republic of Lithuania from 
the date of its declaration invalid in the Republic of Lithuania.
 
 
Article 33
3
. Filling of an International Application
 
1. An applicant who satisfies the requirements of Article 3 of the Geneva Act shall be entitled 
to file an international application through the State Patent Bureau or directly with the International 
B
ureau. The Republic of Lithuania may be designated in the international application among the states 
in which protection is applied for.
 
2. An international application shall be filed in compliance with the requirements and in the 
manner prescribed by the 
Geneva Act and the Regulations under the Hague Agreement.
  
 
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3. Where an international agreement is filed through the State Patent Bureau, it shall enter the 
date of filling the international application and shall communicate the international application to 
the 
International Bureau. The State Patent Bureau shall not conduct examination of an international 
application.
 
4. The procedure for filling an international application through the State Patent Bureau shall be 
laid down by the Regulations.
 
 
Article 33
4
. 
Special Provisions Applied to the International Registration of a Design
 
1. 
If the holder of the international registration of a design opposes the decision of the State 
Patent Bureau to refuse to validity of the international registration of the design in
 
the Republic of 
Lithuania on the grounds that all or part of the examples of the design do not satisfy the requirements 
of Article 9 of this Law, he shall be entitled to request a re
-
examination of the design within five months 
from the day of taking of t
he decision. If he fails to file the request within the prescribed time limit, the 
decision of the State Patent Bureau shall be deemed final.
 
2.
 
If the holder of the international registration of a design opposes the decision taken by the 
State Patent Bure
au in the course of the re
-
examination of the design, he shall be entitled to file, within 
three months from the day of transmittal of the decision, an appeal to the Appeals Division. The said 
appeal shall be accepted, considered and appealed against accor
ding to the procedure laid down by 
Article 20 of this Law. 
 
3. The interested persons or their representatives must file an opposition to the international 
registration of a design within three months from the day of publishing of the data on the internati
onal 
registration of the design in the International Designs Bulletin of the International Bureau. The 
opposition must meet the requirements of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 23 of this Law. 
 
4. The holder of the international design registration to which a
n opposition has been filed or 
his representative appointed in the manner laid down in paragraph 2 of
 
Article 16 of this Law shall, 
within five
-
month from the date indicated in a notification to the International Bureau of refusal of the 
validity of the in
ternational registration of the design in the Republic of Lithuania, present a justified 
reply to the opposition. Failure to present a justified reply to the opposition shall be considered as a 
refusal to take part in the consideration of the opposition an
d shall not prevent the Appeals Division 
from considering the opposition in the absence of the holder (or his representative) of the international 
design registration to which the opposition has been filed. If the holder of the international design 
registr
ation to which the opposition has been filed fails to appoint his representative, the decision taken  
 
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by the Appeals Division shall not be communicated to the holder of the international registration of the 
design. 
 
5. Data on a license issued by the holder
 
of the international registration of a design may be 
recorded in the Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania in accordance with the procedure laid 
down by Article 41 of this Law. 
 
6. Changes concerning the international registration of a design, rene
wal of the registration, 
transfer of the rights and other data relating to the international registration of the design shall be 
recorded by the International Bureau in compliance with the procedure laid down by the Geneva Act. 
Requests shall be presented 
directly to the International Bureau.
 
7. All fees prescribed in the Geneva Act and the Regulations under the Hague Agreement shall 
be paid directly to the International Bureau. 
 
 
CHAPTER IV. DURATION OF REGISTRATION OF A DESIGN
 
 
Article 34. 
Duration of Registration of a Design
 
1. An initial period of validity of the registration of a design shall be 5 years from the date of 
filing of the application.
 
2. The term of the registration of a design may be renewed up to a total term of 25 
years in the 
manner prescribed by Article 35 of this Law.
 
 
Article 35. Renewal of Registration of a Design 
 
1. Following the expiry of the period specified in paragraph 1 of Article 34 of this Law, the 
registration of a design may be renewed four times for
 
a period of five years each, up to a total term of 
25 years from the date of filing of an application. 
 
2. The registration of a design shall be renewed on the decision of the State Patent Bureau 
provided that a fixed fee is paid and a request for renewal
 
of the registration of the design in respect of 
all or part of the examples is submitted to the State Patent Bureau in accordance with the procedure laid 
down by the Regulations.
 
3. A request for renewal of the registration of a design must be filed by th
e design holder or his 
representative within the last six months of the design registration validity, with the exception of the 
case provided for in paragraph 4 of this Article.
 
4. Upon having paid for the renewal of the registration of a design the surcha
rge increased by 
50 per cent, the design holder or his representative may, within 6 months from the day of the expiry of  
 
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the validity of registration of the design, submit the documents specified in paragraph 2 of this Article. 
In this case it shall be con
sidered that the registration of the design has not ceased to be valid. 
 
5. Information relating to the renewal of the registration of a design shall be recorded in the 
Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania and published in the Official Bulletin of 
the State Patent 
Bureau. 
 
6. If the design holder or his representative fails to submit a request for renewal of the 
registration of the design within the period specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of this Article, the 
registration of the design shall not be r
enewed and the design shall be removed from the Design Register 
of the Republic of Lithuania according to the procedure laid down in Article 30 of this Law. 
 
 
CHAPTER V. RIGHTS CONFERRED BY DESIGN REGISTRATION
 
 
Article 36. Rights of the Design Holder
 
1. Th
e holder of a registered design shall enjoy the exclusive right to use it and to allow or 
prevent any other persons not having his consent from making, offering for sale, selling, putting on the 
market, importing, exporting, stocking and using any products
 
or their parts, if the overall impression 
their design produces on an informed user differs from that produced on him by the registered design.
 
 
2. When establishing the rights conferred by the registration of a design, the freedom of the 
designer in deve
loping the design shall be taken into consideration.
 
 
Article 37. Limitation of the Rights Conferred by the Design Right
 
1. The provisions of Article 36 of this Law may not apply in order to prevent any third party 
from doing the acts set out in Article 36
 
of this Law, provided they are:
 
1) done to meet personal needs and for non
-
commercial purposes; 
 
2) done for experimental purposes; 
 
3) acts of reproduction of a design for the purposes of making citations or of teaching provided 
that such acts are compat
ible with fair trade practice and do not prejudice the normal exploitation of the 
design, and that mention is made of the source.
 
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article may apply only when the aforementioned acts 
are compatible with fair trade or
 
commercial practice and do not unduly prejudice the lawful interests 
of the design holder.
  
 
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3. In addition to the acts provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article, the design holder shall not 
have the right to prevent any third party from doing the followi
ng acts:
 
1) to use a design on ships, aircrafts and other means of transport registered in foreign countries, 
and in the equipment thereof, when these temporarily enter the territory of the Republic of Lithuania; 
 
2) to import in the Republic of Lithuania spare par
ts and accessories for the purpose of repairing 
the means of transport specified in subparagraph 1 of this paragraph;
 
3) to execute repairs on the means of transport specified in subparagraph 1 of this paragraph;
 
4) to exercise the right of prior use.
 
 
Art
icle 38. Right of Prior Use
 
1. Persons who have in good faith used or have been completely prepared to use the design, 
which has not been copied, but has been developed independently from a registered design of another 
person, before the date of filing of 
the application, or, if a priority is claimed, before the date of priority, 
shall have the right in their enterprise and for the purposes of the activities thereof to continue such use 
or to use the design as envisaged during the preparations. 
 
2. The pers
on who enjoys the right of prior use may not grant a licence to another person to use 
the design.
 
3. The right of prior use cannot be transferred except along with that part of the business in the 
course of which design was used or the preparations were ma
de for the use thereof.
 
 
Article 39. Exhaustion of rights
 
The rights conferred by registration of a design shall be exhausted, when the products the design 
of which is protected in the manner prescribed by this Law, have been put by the holder of the desig
n 
or with his consent on the European Community market. 
 
 
CHAPTER VI. TRANSFER OF THE RIGHT TO A DESIGN, 
 
LICENSING AND RIGHTS IN REM 
 
 
Article 40. Transfer of the Right to a Design Applied for or a Registered Design
 
1. The right to a design applied for or a registered design may be transferred, under agreement, 
together with or separately from other rights of the design holder, related to his business, with the 
exception of the cases where a successor in title has not
 
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pursuant to subparagraph 3 or 4 of Article 9 of this Law. Unless the agreement provides otherwise, the 
transfer of business shall include the transfer of the right to a design.
 
2. The right to a design appl
ied for or to a registered design may be transferred in respect of a 
part of the design examples. 
 
3. The transfer of a right to a design applied for or a registered design shall be recorded in the 
Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania upon the requ
est of one of the parties to the transfer, 
provided a fixed fee is paid and the following documents are submitted to the State Patent Bureau:
 
1) a request to record the transfer;
 
2) a document certifying the transfer and signed by the parties to the transf
er or an extract from 
the transfer agreement, signed by one of the parties to the transfer or the representative thereof;
 
3) the power of attorney issued to the representative (where appropriate);
 
4) an authorisation or consent referred to in subparagraph 
3 or 4 of Article 9 of this Law and 
granted to a successor in title (where appropriate).
 
4. The State Patent Bureau shall examine the submitted documents within a time limit set out in 
the Regulations and, provided that the documents satisfy the requiremen
ts of this Article and the 
Regulations, shall record the data relating to the transfer of a design applied for or a registered design 
in the Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania. Having established that the submitted documents 
do not satisfy the re
quirements laid down in this Law or the Regulations, the State Patent Bureau shall 
send the applicant, the proprietor of the design holder or his representative a notification identifying the 
deficiencies and suggestions for their remedy. If the said defic
iencies are not remedied within one month 
from the dispatch of the said notification, the request to record the transfer in the Design Register of the 
Republic of Lithuania shall be deemed not to have been submitted.
 
5. A transfer of the right to an applied for or registered design shall become effective from its 
recording in the Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania. The data relating to the transfer of the 
right to a registered design shall be published in the
 
Official Bulletin of the State Patent Bureau. 
 
6. Where upon the transfer of the right to a design applied for or a registered d, a successor to 
the title has not been granted an authorisation or given a consent pursuant to subparagraph 3 or 4 of 
Article 
9 of this Law, the State Patent Bureau shall take a decision not to record the data related to the 
transfer of the right to the design applied for or the registered design in the Design Register of the 
Republic of Lithuania.
 
 
Article 41. Licensing 
  
 
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1. The 
design holder shall enjoy the right to issue to a third party an exclusive or non
-
exclusive 
licence for using a design within the whole or part of the Republic of Lithuania. 
 
2. The licensing contract data shall be recorded in the Design Register of the Re
public of 
Lithuania upon the payment of a fixed fee and the filing of a request of one of the parties to the licensing 
contract. The following documents shall be submitted to the State Patent Bureau alongside with the 
request:
 
1) a document certifying the 
conclusion of the licensing contract signed by both parties or an 
extract from the licensing contract, signed by one of the parties to the transfer or the representative 
thereof;
 
2) the power of attorney issued to a representative (where appropriate);
 
3. T
he following must be indicated in the document certifying the conclusion of a licensing 
contract or in an extract from the licensing contract:
 
1) the name or the personal name, surname and address (headquarters) of the design holder;
 
2) the name or the per
sonal name, surname and address (headquarters) of the licensee;
 
3) registration number of the design for which the licence is granted;
 
4) type of the licence;
 
5) the time period of the validity of the licence;
 
6) the territory in which the licence is valid
.
 
4. The State Patent Bureau shall examine the received documents within a time limit set out by 
the Regulations and, upon ascertaining that the documents satisfy the requirements of this Law and the 
Regulations, shall record the data relating to the concl
usion of the licensing contract in the Design 
Register of the Republic of Lithuania. Having established that the submitted documents do not satisfy 
the requirements of this Law or the Regulations, the State Patent Bureau shall send the applicant, design 
ho
lder or his representative a notification identifying the deficiencies and suggestions for their remedy. 
If the said deficiencies are not remedied within one month from the dispatch of the said notification, 
the request for recordal of the data on the lice
nsing contract in the Design Register of the Republic of 
Lithuania shall be deemed not to have been submitted.
 
.
 
5. The data relating to the recordal of the licensing contract in the Design Register of the 
Republic of Lithuania shall be published in the Of
ficial Bulletin of the State Patent Bureau.
 
6. The design holder may invoke the rights provided for by Article 36 of this Law against a 
licensee who contravenes any of the provisions in his licensing contract. 
 
7. The provisions of paragraphs 1
-
6 of this A
rticle shall also apply 
mutatis mutandis 
to the 
sublicensing contract.
  
 
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Article 42. Rights in Rem
 
1. The right to a
 
design may be given as security or seized (temporary restriction of the right to 
use, administer or dispose of the design) according to the 
procedure laid down by the laws of the 
Republic of Lithuania. 
 
2.
 
Upon receipt of the notification from the keeper of the Register of contracts and restrictions 
of rights or Property Seizure Acts about the right to a design given as security or seized, the
 
State Patent 
Bureau shall enter the relating data in the Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania and publish a 
notice to the effect in the Official Bulletin of the State Patent Bureau.
 
Supplemented by the paragraph of the Article:
 
No 
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CHAPTER VII. INVALIDATION OF REGISTRATION OF A DESIGN 
 
 
Article 43. Invalidation of Design Registration
 
1. Upon request by the persons specified in Article 44 of this Law, the registration of a design 
may be invalidated by the court on the grounds laid dow
n in Articles 9 and (or) 10 of this Law.
 
2. Having received an effective court’s decision declaring the invalidity of the design 
registration, the State Patent Bureau shall remove the design from the Design Register of the Republic 
of Lithuania according t
o the procedure laid down in Article 30 of this Law.
 
3. After the registration of a design has been declared invalid, the issued registration certificate 
shall also be declared invalid.
 
4. Registration of a design may be declared invalid even after it has 
lapsed or has been 
surrendered by the design holder.
 
 
Article 44. Persons Entitled to Request to Declare Registration of a Design Invalid
 
The following persons shall be entitled to request to declare registration of a design invalid:
 
1) a person whose righ
ts are directly infringed by the use of such design, or officers of competent 
authorities 
–
 
on the grounds laid down in subparagraphs 3 and 4 of Article 9 of this Law;
 
2) a person who is entitled to the design right 
–
 
on the ground laid down in subparagrap
h 2 of 
paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law;
 
3) a person who is a design holder of a prior design which has been registered or applied for 
registration 
–
 
on the grounds laid down in subparagraph 3 or 4 of paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law;
  
 
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4) a propri
etor of a trade mark, a business name of a legal person or any other distinctive sign 
of business of that legal person 
–
 
on the ground laid down in subparagraph 5 of paragraph 1 of Article 
10 of this Law;
 
5) an author or his successor in title 
–
 
on the gro
und laid down in subparagraph 6 of paragraph 
1 of Article 10 of this Law;
 
6) any person concerned 
–
 
on the grounds laid down in subparagraphs 1 and 2 of Article 9, and 
subparagraph 1 of paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law.
 
 
Article 45. Decision regarding
 
Refusal of Registration or Invalidation of Registration of a 
Design only in respect of some Design Examples
 
Where a decision is taken to refuse registration or to invalidate registration in respect of only 
some of the design examples, the decision regardi
ng the refusal of registration or invalidation shall 
cover those design examples only.
 
 
CHAPTER VIII. DISPUTE SETTLEMENT. ENFORCEMENT OF RIGHTS
 
 
Article 46. Institutions having Jurisdiction in Disputes relating to Designs
 
1. The Appeals Division shall 
deal with disputes referred in Article 23 of this Law.
 
2. Vilnius County Court shall deal with disputes relating to:
 
1) decisions of the Appeals Division;
 
2) invalidation of registration of a design;
 
3) enforcement of the rights of the design holder;
 
4) a 
Community design under the provisions of Article 79
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92 of the Regulation on Community 
designs.
 
 
Article 47. Enforcement of Rights
 
1. The applicant, the design holder or their successors in title, when enforcing their rights, and 
the licensees of exclusive 
licences, when protecting the rights granted to them, shall be entitled to apply 
to the court in accordance with the procedure laid down by the law and to seek:
 
1) recognition of the rights;
 
2) 
an injunction intend
ed to terminate the continuation of infrin
ging activities
;
 
3) prohibition to carry out activities by reason of which the rights may be actually infringed or 
the 
prejudice suffered;
  
 
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4) compensation for the material damage, including lost income and other incurred expenses;
 
 
5) application of other 
remedies set out by this Law and other laws.
 
2. In order to ensure enforcement of an injunction intended to forbid the continuation of 
infringing activities, as well as an injunction intended to prevent activities by reason of which the rights 
may be actua
lly infringed or the prejudice suffered, the court may, upon request of the persons referred 
to in paragraph 1 of this Article, order an infringer to 
lodge adequate assurance intended to ensure 
compensation for any possible prejudice.
 
3. Where there is no 
fault in the activities, in connection with the infringement of the rights established 
by this Law, of a person in respect of whom an injunction intended to terminate the continuation of infringing 
activities or the corrective measures specified in Article
 
47
4
 
are applied, the court may, at the request of this 
person, order him to pay pecuniary compensation to the injured party, if execution of the 
measures referred to 
in this paragraph of the Article would cause him disproportionate harm and if pecuniary c
ompensation to the 
injured party appears reasonable and satisfactory.
 
4. The persons referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, when enforcing their rights, shall be entitled 
to apply to the court for an 
injunction against intermediaries whose services ar
e used by a 
third party to 
infringe the rights established by this Law. Such an injunction shall include the suspension of 
communication of information related to the infringement of the rights established by this Law or, if an 
intermediary is capable of p
erforming this technically, the elimination of information infringing the said 
rights, or prohibition to obtain information infringing these rights. Such compliance with the judicial 
decision shall not exempt an intermediary from the responsibility for any
 
act or omission related to 
keeping or communication of such information, which was the case before coming into effect of this 
decision. 
 
5. When hearing a case of infringement of the rights of the design holder, the defendant shall be 
entitled to file a counterclaim for invalidation of the registration of a design.  
 
6. The design holder shall be entitled to apply to the court for an injunc
tion against the use of a 
Community design within the territory of the Republic of Lithuania pursuant to the provisions regarding 
the Community design of 
Annex II: 
List referred to in Article 20 of the Act of Accession. 4. Company 
law. C. Industrial proper
ty rights
 
of the 16 April 2003 
Treaty between the Kingdom of Belgium, the 
Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, 
the French Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, t
he Kingdom of 
the Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Portuguese Republic, the Republic of Finland, the 
Kingdom of Sweden, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Member States of the 
European Union) and the Czech Republic, the Repu
blic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the  
 
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Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the 
Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovak Republic, concerning the accession of the 
Czech Republi
c, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic 
of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of 
Slovenia and the Slovak Republic to the European Union Act concer
ning the conditions of accession of 
the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the 
Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the 
Republic of Slovenia and
 
the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the 
European Union is founded.
 
 
Article 47
1
. Right of information
 
1. When hearing a case concerning an infringement of the rights established by this Law, the 
court, 
in response to a justifi
ed request of the claimant, 
may, in the context of proceedings, order the persons 
to immediately provide information on the origin and distribution networks of the products (goods) which 
infringe the rights established by this Law, particularly
:
 
1) 
the nam
es and addresses of the producers, manufacturers, distributors, suppliers and other
 
previous holders of the products (goods) infringing the rights established by this Law, as well as the 
wholesalers and retailers for whom the indicated products (goods) hav
e been intended;
 
2) information on the quantities of the produced, manufactured, delivered, received
 
or ordered 
products (goods) which infringe the rights established by this Law, as well 
as the price which has been 
obtained or ought to have been obtained for those 
products (goods)
.
 
2. The infringers of the rights established by this Law, other persons w
ho were in possession on a 
commercial scale of the 
products (goods) i
nfringing the rights established by this Law, who were using on a 
commercial scale the services infringing the rights established by this Law or who were providing on a 
commercial scale t
he services which a third party used to infringe the rights established by this Law, as well 
as those
 
who were
 
indicated by the said persons as being involved in the production, manufacture or 
distribution of the products (goods) infringing the rights established by this Law or the provision of the services 
infringing the rights established by this Law may be orde
red to provide information referred to in paragraph 1 
of this Article.
 
 
Article 47
2
. Evidence
 
1
.
 
O
n application by a party which has presented reasonably 
available evidence sufficient to support 
its claims, and has, in substantiating those claims, specifie
d 
evidence which lies in the control of the opposing  
 
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party, the court of such party may, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Code of Civil 
Procedure, order that such evidence be presented by the opposing party, subject to the protection of 
co
nfidential information. A 
reasonable sample of a substantial number of products or goods shall be 
considered by the court to constitute reasonable evidence of the infringement of the rights established by this 
Law.
 
2. I
n the case of an infringement of the 
rights established by this Law, which has been committed on 
a commercial scale and under the conditions specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, the court may, in 
accordance with the procedure laid down by the Code of Civil Procedure, order that banking, 
 
financial or commercial documents be communicated by the opposing party, subject to the protection
 
of confidential information. In the event of failure to present such evidence without strong reasons within the 
time limit set by the court or where the use
 
of the evidence is denied, the court shall have the right to take a 
decision on the grounds of the evidence presented to it.  
 
 
Article 47
3
. Provisional measures and measures for preserving evidence
 
1. Application of provisional measures and measures for 
preserving evidence shall be regulated by the 
Code of Civil Procedure and this Law.
 
2. If there are sufficient grounds to suspect that the rights established by this Law have been infringed, 
the court may, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the 
Code of Civil Procedure, apply provisional 
measures necessary to prevent imminent infringing activities, to promptly terminate infringing activities and 
to enforce a final decision of the court, that is:
 
1) to forbid persons to commit an imminent infringem
ent of the rights established by this Law;
 
2) to order persons to temporarily terminate an infringement of the rights established by this Law;
 
3) to forbid an intermediary to provide services to a third party who uses such services by infringing 
the rights
 
established by this Law;
 
4) to 
seize 
products (goods)
, prevent their entry into or remove them from the channels of commerce, 
if it is suspected that they may infringe or are infringing the rights established by this Law;
 
5) to seize the 
property of the persons suspected of infringing the rights established 
by this Law, which 
is possessed by the said persons or a third party, including the accounts of banks and other credit institutions; 
also to 
order the communication of bank, financial or 
commercial documents, or appropriate access to these 
documents in the
 
case of an infringement committed on a commercial scale;
 
6) to apply other measures laid down by the Code of Civil Procedure.
 
3. If the provisional measures which are referred to in subparagraphs 1 and 2 of paragraph 2 of this 
Article and which have been 
applied are being infringed and the infringement continues, the court may order  
 
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the persons suspected of committing an infringement to
 
lodge adequate assurance intended to ensure that a 
person who has applied for provisional measures will be compensated fo
r a possible prejudice. 
  
 
4. 
The court shall have the right to
 
require the person who applies for provisional measures to provide 
any reasonably available evidence in order to satisfy the court with a sufficient degree of certainty that the said 
person or
 
the person in whose interest provisional measures are applied for is the holder or user of the rights 
established by this Law and that 
the applicant's right is being infringed, or that such infringement is imminent.
 
5. T
he court may, on application by a p
erson who has presented reasonably available evidence to 
support his claims that the rights established by this Law have been infringed or are about to be infringed, 
may apply provisional measures or measures for preserving evidence, subject to the protect
ion of confidential 
information, thus 
preserve relevant evidence in respect of the alleged infringement, that is:
 
1) to describe in detail the goods infringing the rights established by this Law and to seize them, or 
only to describe them;
 
2) to seize the 
products infringing the rights established by this Law 
and, in appropriate cases, the 
materials and 
implements used in the production and/or distribution of these products as well as the 
documents relating 
thereto;
 
3) to apply other prompt and 
effective provisional measures provided for in the Code of Civil 
Procedure.
 
6. Provisional measures and measures for preserving evidence may be applied 
without the defendant 
having been notified or heard, in particular where 
any delay would cause irreparab
le harm to the applicant or 
where there is a demonstrable risk of evidence being destroyed.
 
Where provisional measures are applied 
without the defendant having been notified and heard, the defendant must
 
be given notice without delay, i.e. 
after the execut
ion of such measures at the latest. At the request of the parties, 
including a right to be heard, 
the provisional measures and measures for preserving evidence may be reviewed with a view to deciding, 
within a reasonable period after the notification of application of the measures, whether such measures must 
be modified, 
revoked or confirmed.
 
7. 
Where the applied provisional measures or measures for preserving evidence are revoked by the 
court or where they lapse due to any act or omission by the person who applied for them, or where a decision 
of the court establishing th
at there has been no infringement or threat of 
infringement of the rights established 
by this Law comes into effect, or where the person, who has applied for provisional measures or measures 
preserving evidence, does not institute proceedings within a peri
od determined by the court, the defendant 
shall be entitled to request compensation for any injury caused by application of those measures.
 
 
Article 47
4
. Corrective measures
  
 
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1. The persons specified in paragraph 1 of Ar
ticle 47 of this Law shall be entitle
d to apply to the court 
and request that products (goods) be 
recalled, removed from the channels of commerce in such a manner as 
to avoid any harm being caused to the said persons and to ensure the protection of their rights (e.g. to remake 
the infringing 
goods into other goods or to apply similar measures), or to request that the 
products (goods)
, 
which the court has found to be infringing the rights established by this Law and, in appropriate cases, the 
materials and implements principally used in the cre
ation or manufacture of 
the specified objects be 
destroyed.
 
2.
 
The measures referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be applied regardless of other 
requirements of a person, applying for these measures, for compensation of the prejudice suffered as
 
a result 
of the infringement of his rights. Such measures shall be carried out at the expense of the 
infringer, without 
compensating and taking into account 
proportionality between the seriousness of the infringement and the 
measure applied as well as the
 
legitimate interests of third parties.
 
 
Article 48. Recovery of material damage
 
1. The procedure for recovery of material damage shall be regulated by the Civil Code and this 
Law.
 
2. When assessing the amount of the actual damage (losses) suffered as a re
sult of the 
infringement of the rights established by this Law, the court shall take into account the substance of the 
infringement, the amount of the inflicted damage, lost income, incurred expenses, and other important 
circumstances. Profit made by the i
nfringer may, at the request of the persons specified in paragraph 1 
of Article 47 of this Law, be recognized as losses. Goods infringing the rights established by this Law 
may be transferred to the holders of those rights upon their request. 
 
3. The amoun
t of income lost by the persons specified in paragraph 1 of Article 47 of this Law 
shall be set by taking into account the amount of income which would have been made if the design 
protected under this Law had been used legally (i.e. taking account of the 
royalties which are usually 
paid for the legal use of the design), as well as the concrete circumstances which might have created 
conditions for making income (works performed by the right holders, implements used, negotiations 
for conclusion of contracts 
concerning the use of the design, etc.).
 
4. Instead of the recovery of the damage (losses) actually suffered by reason of the infringement 
of the rights established by this Law, the persons specified in paragraph 1 of Article 47 of this Law may 
claim the p
ayment 
which would have been due if the infringer had used the design legally (i.e. had acquired 
permission), and where the infringement has been committed intentionally or through gross negligence 
–
 
the 
said persons may claim up to twice the amount of suc
h payment. 
  
 
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5. 
Where the infringer did not knowingly, or with reasonable grounds to know, engage in 
infringing 
the rights established by this Law (i.e. there is no fault in his actions), the court may, upon request of the 
persons specified in paragraph 1 o
f Article 47 of this Law, order the recovery of profit made by the infringer. 
A total that the infringer has saved and/or made by infringing the rights established by this Law shall be 
regarded as the profit made by the infringer. The profit made by the in
fringer shall be ascertained and 
recovered regardless of whether or not the right holder would have made the same profit as the infringer. 
When ascertaining the profit made by the infringer, the right holder must provide only the evidence that 
would confir
m the gross income received by the infringer; the amount of net profit of the infringer (after 
deducting the expenses) must be proved by the infringer.
 
 
Article 48
1
. Publication of judicial decision
 
The court which takes a decision on the infringement of the rights established by this Law may, at the 
request of the persons specified in paragraph 1 of Article 47 of this Law, order the infringer to disseminate at 
his own expense the information 
concerni
ng the adopted decision, including disseminating the decision in 
full or in part in the mass media or by any other means. A judicial decision or information concerning an 
adopted decision may be announced after the coming into effect of the decision, unles
s otherwise established 
by the court. The manner and extent of dissemination of a judicial decision shall be laid down in this judicial 
decision. The persons specified in paragraph 1 of Article 47 of this Law may request that the infringer pay in 
advance i
nto the bank account, indicated by the court, a sum of money necessary to disseminate the 
information concerning an adopted judicial decision or an adopted judicial decision itself.
 
 
Article 49. Application of customs supervision measures
 
Customs supervisi
on measures determined by legal acts of the European Union and the Republic 
of Lithuania must be applied to the products, goods and/or their parts the import of which from third 
countries to the Republic of Lithuania or the export of which from the Republi
c of Lithuania to third 
countries should be regarded as an infringement of the rights of the design holder. 
 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
FINAL 
PROVISIONS
 
 
Article 50. Transitional Provisions 
 
1. A design applied for registration prior to the entry into force of this 
Law shall be registered 
under the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Industrial Design.
  
 
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2. The design holder’s rights to a design registered prior to the entry into force of this Law shall 
be protected under this Law.
 
 
Article 51. Proposal to the Governme
nt
 
The Government shall by 1 January 2003 harmonise the legal acts relating to the provisions of 
this Law.
 
 
Article 51
1
. Application of the Regulation on Community Designs
 
1. The State Patent Bureau shall be a central industrial property office under the R
egulation on 
Community design. 
 
2. The State Patent Bureau shall approve legal acts related to the application of the Regulation 
on Community designs.
 
3. Fees for the actions carried out by the State Patent Bureau after the filing through the State 
Patent 
Bureau of an application for the registration of a Community design shall be paid in accordance 
with the procedure laid down by the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Law on Fees for the 
Registration of Industrial Property Objects and the Regulation on Co
mmunity designs.
 
4. Under paragraph 2 of Article 71 of the Regulation on Community designs, on application by 
a party concerned which has filed with the court an original decision of the European Union Intellectual 
Property Office fixing the amount of cost
s or a copy thereof together with the attested translation of the 
said decision into the Lithuanian language, the Court of Appeal of Lithuania shall, not later than within 
five working days and in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Code of Civi
l Procedure, 
verify the authenticity of the decision of the European Union Intellectual Property Office and issue an 
order for the enforcement thereof.
 
 
 
Article 52. Entry into Force of the Law
 
1. This Law, except for Article 51, shall enter into force on 
1 January 2003.
 
2. The provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 3 of this Law shall become effective from the 
moment the international treaty specified in paragraph 2 of Article 3 becomes effective.
 
3. Upon entry into force of this Law, the following shall bec
ome invalid:
 
1) the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Industrial Design;
 
2) the Law of the Republic of Lithuania Amending Article 5 of the Law on Industrial Design;
 
3) the Law of the Republic of Lithuania Supplementing the Law on Industrial Design 
with 
Article 26
1
.
  
 
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I promulgate this Law enacted by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
 
 
 
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC 
 
 
 
 
VALDAS ADAMKUS
 
 
 
Annex to
 
Republic of Lithuania Law on Designs
 
 
EU LEGAL ACTS IMPLEMENTED BY THE LAW ON DESIGNS
 
 
1. The Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Designs is in compliance with Directive 98/71/EC 
of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs.
 
2. Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Com
munity designs.
 
3. 
Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council 
of 29 April 2004 on the 
enforcement of intellectual property rights.
 
 
 
Valid as of 1 May 2018:
 
Annex to
 
Republic of Lithuania Law on Designs
 
 
EU LEGAL ACTS IMPLEMENTED BY
 
THE LAW ON DESIGNS
 
 
1. Directive 98/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 on the 
legal protection of designs.
 
(OJ, 2004
 
special edition
, chapter 13, volume 21, p. 120).
 
2. Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 
December 2001 on Community designs.
 
(OJ, 2004
 
special edition
, chapter 13, volume 27, p. 142).
 
3. 
Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council 
of 29 April 2004 on the 
enforcement of intellectual property rights.
 
(OJ, 2004
 
special edit
ion
,
 
chapter 17, volume 2, p. 32).