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Hague System

is the International registration system of industrial designs administered by WIPO, allowing the registration of up to 100 designs in over 68 territories through the filing of one single international application.

Harmonised Database

is a multilingual database of descriptions of goods and services that have been agreed to be acceptable classification terms by the EUIPO and national IP offices in the EU, used when applying for a trade mark.

Horizon 2020

refers to the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020). It is the successor of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technical Development (FP7), the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).