USBM - Official Web Site
Welcome to the official website of the Patent and trademark Office of the Repubblic of San Marino (USBM).
Tha task of the Patent and Trademarks Office is to register national trademarks, patents and designs and to receive applications for international trademarks and Patents.
Starting from December 2000 every two mounths USBM pubblishes a Gazzette in wich you can find pubblications of applications for patents, trademarks and designs and concession.
USBM offers even operative and methodological support for filing applications, putting to disposal forms for applications and information.
Repubblic of San Marino is a member of Paris Convention and od Madrid Agreement and Additional Protocoll (2007) on International registration of trademarks.
San Marino is a member of Patent Cooperationa Treaty (P.C.T.) since 2004 and of European Patent Organisation (E.P.O.) since 2009.
Repubblic of San Marino is bounded to Italy by a Friendship Treaty (1939) according to wich both States undertake to give protection to IP protected in the other country.
Every one can apply for patent, trademark or design in San Marino, however, who is a resident in San Marino can apply direcly in front of USBM, others can apply only throgh a agent with power of attorney (the agent must be enrolled in a special register held by USBM).
You can find all information, legal texts, forms, names and adresses of agent in this website.
Thank you for visiting our website!
MILESTONE
june 1997: Framework law on Trademarks and Patents.
June 1999: Implementation law of Framework law on trademarks and patents.
December 2000: USBM start to pubblish a Official Gazette relating Patents, Trademarks and Designs.
July 2004: Repubblic of San Marino ratify Patent Cooperation Treaty (P.C.T.).
April 2005: signature of a Memorandum of understanding between Ufficio di Stato Brevetti e Marchi (USBM) and the Austrian Patent Office (A.P.O.)
May 2005: Industrial Property Consolidation Act
June 2007: Repubblic of San Marino ratify Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
july 2009: Repubblic of San Marino ratify European Patent Convention (E.P.C. 2000)