35 USC § 385 - Effect of international design application

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title: "35 USC § 385 - Effect of international design application"
title_number: 35
title_name: "PATENTS"
section_number: "385"
section_name: "Effect of international design application"
chapter_number: 38
chapter_name: "INTERNATIONAL DESIGN APPLICATIONS"
part_number: "V"
part_name: "THE HAGUE AGREEMENT CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-12-12"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 112–211, title I, § 101(a), Dec. 18, 2012, 126 Stat. 1529.)"
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# § 385. Effect of international design application

An international design application designating the United States shall have the effect, for all purposes, from its filing date determined in accordance with section 384, of an application for patent filed in the Patent and Trademark Office pursuant to chapter 16.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 112–211, title I, § 101(a), Dec. 18, 2012, 126 Stat. 1529.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the later of the date that is 1 year after , or the date that the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs enters into force with respect to the United States (), and applicable only to certain applications filed on and after that effective date and patents issuing thereon, see , set out as an Effective Date of 2012 Amendment note under .