Legal basis: United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Act 1936.

Protection: designs registered in the United Kingdom are protected in Fiji under the United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Acts. The proprietor’s exclusive privileges and rights under the U.K. registration extend to Fiji as though the certificate of registration in the U.K. had been issued with an extension to Fiji. Designs cannot be registered as such but designs registered in the U.K. may be advertised to give the public notice of the existence of the design.

Note: Fiji has passed a new Designs Act 2021. The new Act gives effect to the Paris Convention, TRIPS Agreement and WTO Agreement and will repeal the United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Act 1936. The new Act allows for design applications to be filed and registered in Fiji. At the time of writing this update, the commencement date of the new Act has not been announced and the accompanying Regulations have yet to be published.