- applicant
means the person in whose name an international application is filed;
- Assembly
means the Assembly referred to in Article 21(1)(a) or any body replacing that Assembly;
- Complementary Act of 1967
means the Complementary Act signed at Stockholm on 14 July 1967, as amended, of the Hague Agreement;
- Contracting Party
means any State or intergovernmental organisation party to this Act;
- designated Office
means the Contracting Party and the Office of the Contracting Party, respectively, to which a designation applies;
- designation
means a request that an international registration have effect in a Contracting Party;
- Director General
means the Director General of the Organisation;
- Examining Office
means an Office which ex officio examines applications filed with it for the protection of industrial designs at least to determine whether the industrial designs satisfy the condition of novelty;
- holder
means the person in whose name an international registration is recorded in the International Register;
- intergovernmental organisation
means an intergovernmental organisation eligible to become party to this Act in accordance with Article 27(1)(ii);
- international application
means an application for international registration;
- International Bureau
means the International Bureau of the Organisation;
- International Register
means the official collection of data concerning international registrations maintained by the International Bureau, which data this Act or the Regulations require or permit to be recorded, regardless of the medium in which such data are stored;
- international registration
means the international registration of an industrial design effected according to this Act;
- Office
means the agency entrusted by a Contracting Party with the grant of protection for industrial designs with effect in the territory of that Contracting Party;
- Organisation
means the World Intellectual Property Organisation;
- Paris Convention
means the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed at Paris on March 20, 1 883, as revised and amended;
- person
means a natural person or a legal entity;
- prescribed
means prescribed in the Regulations;
- Regulations
means the Regulations under this Act;
- territory of a Contracting Party
means, where the Contracting Party is a State, the territory of that State and, where the Contracting Party is an intergovernmental organisation, the territory in which the constituent treaty of that intergovernmental organisation applies;
- the Hague Agreement
means the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs, henceforth renamed the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs;
- this Act
means the Hague Agreement as established by the present Act;
- Union
means the Hague Union established by the Hague Agreement of November 6, 1925, and maintained by the 1934 and 1960 Acts, the 1961 Additional Act, the Complementary Act of 1967 and this Act;