The Hague Agreement is an important system for the international registration of industrial designs. Under this system, the applicant may obtain industrial design protection in several contracting countries or governments by submitting a single international application to the International Bureau of the world intellectual property organization, which greatly saves the applicant's time and money.
China is a big manufacturing country. More and more domestic enterprises go abroad and their products are sold to the global market. In order to better participate in the international competition, how to increase the investment in product industrial design and improve the protection of appearance design in foreign countries has become more and more concerned by Chinese enterprises.