New Trademark, Patent and Design Bills, 45, 46 and 471 of 2020 have been issued by the Fijian Parliament to update the IP laws pertaining to current acts dated from 1889 through to 1936. These Bills seek to implement Fiji's intention to join the Paris Convention and assume the requirements to do so.
Written submissions on these proposed bills are being accepted by the Fijian Standing Committee on Justice, Law and Human Rights up until Saturday 13 February 2021.2
Current Situation
Fiji is neither a member of the Paris Convention nor the Patent Cooperation Treaty. Therefore. priority claims are unavailable.
Trade Marks
- Trade marks allow for the registration of trade marks covering goods only (not services ) as a Fiji national application or as the re-registration of a United Kingdom (UK) registration
