---
kind: "section"
citation: "35 U.S.C. § 390"
title: "35"
title_heading: "Patents"
number: "390"
heading: "Publication of international design application"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/35/390"
units:
  - "Part V — The Hague Agreement Concerning International Registration of Industrial Designs"
  - "Chapter 38 — International Design Applications"
---

# §390. Publication of international design application


The publication under the [treaty](/usc/35/381.md?p=a-1) of an [international design application](/usc/35/381.md?p=a-6) [designating](/usc/35/381.md?p=a-3) the [United States](/usc/35/100.md?p=c) shall be deemed a publication under [section 122(b)](/usc/35/122.md?p=b).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 112–211, title I, § 101(a), Dec. 18, 2012, 126 Stat. 1531.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the later of the date that is 1 year after Dec. 18, 2012, 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 (May 13, 2015), and applicable only to certain applications filed on and after that effective date and patents issuing thereon, see section 103 of Pub. L. 112–211, set out as an Effective Date of 2012 Amendment note under section 100 of this title.