Design patents are limited to _ years.
a.5
b.10
c.15
d.20
C. 15
On December 18, 2012, the Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012 (PLTIA) was marked into law. The PLTIA in addition to other things puts forward arrangements actualizing the 1999 Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs ("Hague Agreement"). These arrangements (Title I of the PLTIA) produced results on May 13, 2015. Therefore, U.S. configuration patents coming about because of uses documented on or after May 13, 2015 have a 15 term from the date of allow. Be that as it may, patents issued from plan applications recorded before May 13, 2015 have a 14 term from the date of give.
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