Locarno Classification definition

Locarno Classification means the classification established by the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs, signed at Locarno on October 8, 1968, as revised and amended;

Locarno Classification means the Classification contained in the Locarno Agreement establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs, as revised or amended from time to time;

Locarno Classification means the international classification for industrial designs under the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs of 8 October 1968 (with all effective supplements and amendments).

Examples of Locarno Classification in a sentence

• This ‘unity of class’ requirement is considered to be complied with even if the products belong to different subclasses of the same class of the Locarno Classification.

• However, except in cases of ornamentation (see paragraph 7.2.3.3 below), any products that are indicated for each and every design of a multiple application must belong to the same class of the Locarno Classification (Article 37(1) CDR; Article 2(2) CDIR).

• An objection would, however, be raised if, in the above example, the products indicated were Motor vehicles (Class 12, subclass 08) and Lights for vehicles, since the second term belongs to Class 26, subclass 06 of the Locarno Classification.

• This is an example of two designs in different subclasses but in the same class, namely Class 12 of the Locarno Classification.

• The indication of the product can be writing paper, cards for correspondence and announcements in Class 19-01, other printed matter in Class 19-08 of the Locarno Classification, or any product to which the design will be applied.

• Nor will a registration be reclassified that was registered in accordance with an edition of the Locarno Classification no longer in force at the time of renewal.

• For example, a Contracting Party may prescribe that it accepts multiple applications only where all the designs in the application apply to, or are constituted by, products which belong to the same class of the Locarno Classification, or only where all the designs in the application conform to the requirement of unity of design or unity of invention or when the products to which the design is applied belong to a set or are intended for the same purpose.

• No Contracting Party will be obliged to require an indication of the class of the Locarno Classification.

• This adds to the legal uncertainty on the subject-matter of protection as noted above.Another illustration is the restriction in the CDR permitting to combine a number of designs in one application (‘multiple application’) only if the products belong all to the same class of the Locarno Classification (‘unity of class requirement’).

• As shown by the evaluation, the unity of class requirement however unnecessarily involves administrative burdens for both the EUIPO and the users of the RCD system without much benefit.Box 2: Filing of multiple RCD applications – practical example An applicant would not be able to file in the same multiple application ‘hairdryers’ and ‘parts of hair dryers’, since these parts belong to another class of the Locarno Classification.

More Definitions of Locarno Classification

Locarno Classification means the International Classification for Designs under the Locarno Agreement as set out in Schedule 1 of the Act;

Locarno Classification means the classification according to the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs, signed on October 8, 1968, as revised and amended.