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Please find out how long the following IPRs are proteced in your country. You might need to search the answer in the IPR legal documentations. (Please specify your country Bangladesh )
Patents
Trademarks
Designs
Utility models
Copyrights
The intellectual property rights act was first introduced in
Bangladesh in 1883 but after lots of changes and development with
merging of two offices the administration came with a new
ordinance. Now globalization is the updated Bangladesh is a legal
member of WIPO world intellectual property organisation. The
intellectual property law is governed by DPDT under ministry of
industries by and Ministry of cultural affairs.it also is a
signatory of trade related aspect of intellectual property rights-
TRIPS
Patent and industrial design are valid for 16 years under patent
and design rules of 1933. For registration under patents and
industrial design act 1911 the design must have some conditions
like it should be 3 dimensional, should be free from purely
functional design. Shouldn't be contrary to public. Trade mark
registration needs to have a registration by application and it
undergo two compliance with the law and distinctiveness. The trade
mark registration, refusals are processed as per trade mark act
2009 and trade mark rules in 2015.
Copyright protection is dependent of copyright act 2000 when was
ammended in 2005 and copyright rules in 2010