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This Chapter surveys the Croatian law on secured transactions involving intellectual property. As Croatia has been an emerging market since the early nineties and an EU member since mid-2013, the Croatian legal system has been challenged by simultaneous developments in areas of both secured transactions law and IP law. These developments have unfortunately resulted in two complex systems, which remain closed in and burdened by their own idiosyncrasies. As in other developed jurisdictions (with notable exceptions, such as in the US), secured transactions over IP in Croatia remain rare and fraught with significant legal risks and uncertainties. As noted by Professor Kieninger in her general analysis in this volume, it is, however, clear that there is a growing market and global need for such transactions, particularly in the early financing of SMEs, to which Croatian law will be unable to stay immune or unresponsive. Given that it requires significant changes in order to achieve clarity and to develop a streamlined version of secured credit involving IP, Croatian law will most certainly have to be revamped, hopefully finding inspiration in competitive comparative models presented in other chapters. This offers a silver lining to its current somewhat erratic and still immature non-unitary system of secured transactions.

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  1. 1.

    A full list of the international treaties and agreements in the field of industrial property to which the Republic of Croatia is a party is available at http://www.dziv.hr/hr/zakonodavstvo/medjunarodni-ugovori/.

  2. 2.

    See www.dziv.hr.

  3. 3.

    Zakon o patentu [Patent Act], Narodne novine (NN) 173/03, 87/05, 76/07, 30/09, 128/10, 49/11, 76/13, 46/18.

  4. 4.

    See generally Matanovac Vučković (2007a), pp. 12–14; Matanovac Vučković (2007b), pp. 3–78; Adamović (2007), pp. 146–173.

  5. 5.

    ZP art. 5(1).

  6. 6.

    ZP art. 12(1). See also Matanovac Vučković (2011), p. 684.

  7. 7.

    See ZP art. 62.

  8. 8.

    ZP art. 22(1). See also Matanovac Vučković (2011), p. 683.

  9. 9.

    See ZP art. 62a.

  10. 10.

    ZP art. 36. Prior to the 2007 ZP Amendments, it was possible to register a patent based on the results of a substantive examination conducted in a foreign patent office which had contractual arrangements in this respect with SIPO. See generally Adamović and Sučić (2006), pp. 63–67.

  11. 11.

    ZP art. 37.

  12. 12.

    ZP art. 48(1), 48(7), and 49(1).

  13. 13.

    See ZP art. 62a.

  14. 14.

    ZP art. 70(1).

  15. 15.

    See ZP Heading Xa.

  16. 16.

    See ZP art. 62a.

  17. 17.

    Zakon o žigu [Trademark Act], NN 173/03, 76/07, 30/09, 49/11, 46/18.

  18. 18.

    See generally Matanovac Vučković (2007a), pp. 12–14; Matanovac Vučković (2007b), pp. 3–78; Matešić (2007), pp. 174–188.

  19. 19.

    ZŽ art. 4.

  20. 20.

    ZŽ art. 17(1).

  21. 21.

    ZŽ arts. 32 and 34.

  22. 22.

    See also Matanovac and Rački Marinković (2006), p. 174; Zlatović (2008), pp. 358–359; Dika (2007), p. 622.

  23. 23.

    ZŽ art. 43.

  24. 24.

    ZŽ, art. 44.

  25. 25.

    Zakon o autorskom pravu i srodnim pravima [Copyright and Related Rights Act], NN 167/03, 79/07, 80/11, 125/11, 141/13, 127/14, 62/17, 96/18.

  26. 26.

    See generally Matanovac Vučković (2007b), pp. 3–78.

  27. 27.

    ZAPSP art. 5(1).

  28. 28.

    See ZAPSP art. 42(29(1), 43(1), 44, 49 and 50.

  29. 29.

    See ZAPSP art. 18.

  30. 30.

    See ZAPSP art. 13(3). See Viši privredni sud Hrvatske [High Commercial Court of Croatia], Pž-694/82 (1982) (if an author receives an agreed pecuniary reward for composing and recording stage music, he or she does not lose the right to claim special remuneration for every performance of his or her copyrighted work).

  31. 31.

    See generally Ernst (2012), p. 32.

  32. 32.

    See generally Gavella (2007), pp. 99–462 (discussing charges); Gavella (2007), pp. 469–551 (discussing fiduciary transfers); Dika (2007), pp. 746–783 (discussing judicial and notarial charges); Dika (2007), pp. 784–821 (discussing judical and notarial fiduciary transfers).

  33. 33.

    ZV art. 298(2).

  34. 34.

    ZV art. 299(1).

  35. 35.

    ZV art. 299(2). Exceptionally, if the right ceases and is replaced by another right such as a claim in tort, the replacement claim will serve as collateral. ZV art. 301(4).

  36. 36.

    ZV art. 301(5). The charge will be transferred automatically if the claim is assigned or otherwise transferred. ZV art. 303(1).

  37. 37.

    ZV art. 301(1).

  38. 38.

    ZV art. 301(2).

  39. 39.

    ZV art. 301(1).

  40. 40.

    ZV art. 301(3).

  41. 41.

    ZV art. 302(1).

  42. 42.

    ZV art. 302(3).

  43. 43.

    ZV art. 307.

  44. 44.

    ZV art. 307(4).

  45. 45.

    ZV art. 307(5).

  46. 46.

    ZV art. 307(4).

  47. 47.

    ZV art. 310.

  48. 48.

    Zakon o vlasništvu i drugim stvarnim pravima [Ownership and Other Property Rights Act], NN 91/1996, 68/1998, 137/1999, 22/2000, 73/2000, 114/2001, 79/2006, 141/2006, 146/2008, 38/2009, 153/2009, 90/2010, 143/2012, 152/2014.

  49. 49.

    Ovršni zakon [Enforcement Act], NN 112/2012, 25/2013, 93/2014, 55/2016, 73/2017.

  50. 50.

    OZ art. 302(2).

  51. 51.

    See OZ art. 306.

  52. 52.

    OZ art. 305(1).

  53. 53.

    OZ art. 305(4).

  54. 54.

    See OZ art. 300.

  55. 55.

    See OZ art. 310.

  56. 56.

    See generally, Ernst (2011).

  57. 57.

    ZV art. 297(2).

  58. 58.

    ZAPSP art. 42.

  59. 59.

    ZAPSP art. 43(1).

  60. 60.

    ZAPSP art. 44(1).

  61. 61.

    ZAPSP art. 44(2).

  62. 62.

    See generally Gliha (2004), pp. 97–112; Kunda and Matanovac Vučković (2010), pp. 85–131.

  63. 63.

    See ZAPSP art. 47(1).

  64. 64.

    ZAPSP arts. 133(2), 139(2), 143(3), 145(2), and 146(2).

  65. 65.

    ZP arts, 62(2), 62a(4); ZŽ art. 42.

  66. 66.

    Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 14, 2017 on the European Union Trade Mark, 2017 OJ (L 154) 1 (EU) (hereinafter: Regulation).

  67. 67.

    Regulation art. 19.

  68. 68.

    ZV art. 310(1).

  69. 69.

    ZV art. 310(2).

  70. 70.

    OZ art. 300(1)(9).

  71. 71.

    OZ art. 307(1).

  72. 72.

    OZ art. 303(1).

  73. 73.

    Zakon o upisniku sudskih i javnobilježničkih osiguranja tražbina vjerovnika na pokretnim stvarima i pravima [Act on the Register of Judicial and Notarial Security Interests Over Movables and Intangibles], NN 121/05.

  74. 74.

    ZU art. 17.

  75. 75.

    ZU art. 18.

  76. 76.

    Zakon o obveznim odnosima [Obligations Act], NN 35/2005, 41/2008, 125/2011, 78/2015.

  77. 77.

    Croatian law does not follow UCC Art. 9 which notably includes sales of accounts.

  78. 78.

    See ZU art. 6(1) (listing registrable rights).

  79. 79.

    ZU art. 24(1).

  80. 80.

    ZU art. 24(2).

  81. 81.

    ZU art. 20(1).

  82. 82.

    ZU art. 21(1)-(2).

  83. 83.

    See ZU art. 34.

  84. 84.

    See ZU art. 26.

  85. 85.

    See ZU art. 30.

  86. 86.

    ZŽ art. 40(3).

  87. 87.

    ZP art. 62a(2).

  88. 88.

    ZU art. 13(1).

  89. 89.

    ZU art. 13(2).

  90. 90.

    OZ art. 113.

  91. 91.

    OZ art. 167(3).

  92. 92.

    Stečajni zakon [Bankruptcy Act], NN 71/2015, 104/2017.

  93. 93.

    SZ arts. 154-157.

  94. 94.

    SZ art. 169(6).

  95. 95.

    SZ art. 249.

  96. 96.

    SZ art. 150(1), and 153(1)(1).

  97. 97.

    ZU art. 38(4).

  98. 98.

    ZV art. 333.

  99. 99.

    ZV art. 334(1)-(3).

  100. 100.

    ZV art. 334(4).

  101. 101.

    OZ art. 320(1)(1).

  102. 102.

    OZ art. 320(1)(2).

  103. 103.

    OZ art. 320(1)(3).

  104. 104.

    OZ art. 315(1).

  105. 105.

    OZ art. 315(1).

  106. 106.

    OZ art. 315(3).

  107. 107.

    ZV art. 336(2).

  108. 108.

    ZV art. 337(2).

  109. 109.

    ZV art. 337(3).

  110. 110.

    ZV art. 337(7).

  111. 111.

    See Ernst and Matanovac Vučković (2013a, b).

  112. 112.

    See OZ art. 138.

  113. 113.

    OZ art. 142.

  114. 114.

    See OZ art. 145.

  115. 115.

    See OZ art. 149.

  116. 116.

    OZ art. 149(4).

  117. 117.

    OZ art. 150(1).

  118. 118.

    ZV art. 297(2).

  119. 119.

    OZ art. 316(1).

  120. 120.

    OZ art. 316(3).

  121. 121.

    OZ art. 322(1).

  122. 122.

    OZ art. 322(2).

  123. 123.

    OZ art. 322(3).

  124. 124.

    OZ art. 322(6).

  125. 125.

    OZ art. 322(7).

  126. 126.

    OZ art. 322(7).

  127. 127.

    OZ art. 325(1).

  128. 128.

    OZ art. 325(4).

  129. 129.

    See SZ arts. 253-254.

  130. 130.

    See Tarifa o nagradama i naknadi troškova za rad odvjetnika, NN 142/2012, 103/2014, 118/2014, 107/2015.

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Matanovac Vučković, R., Ernst, H., Gliha, I. (2020). Security Rights in Intellectual Property in Croatia. In: Kieninger, EM. (eds) Security Rights in Intellectual Property. Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, vol 45. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44191-3_8

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