Žigovno pravo, kao dio pravnoga sustava Bosne i Hercegovine, predstavlja skup pravnih pravila koja nalazimo u pravnim izvorima ili vrelima, koji mogu biti izvori u materijalnom i formalnom smislu, izravni ili neizravni izvori, zakonski i podzakonski, te nacionalni i međunarodni izvori. Moderne tendencije u razvitku žigovnog prava, posebice na međunarodnoj razini te u okrilju Europske unije i WIPO-a, utjecale su na potrebu daljnjeg usklađivanja zakonodavstva u Bosni i Hercegovini glede prava intelektualnog vlasništva, što je rezultiralo donošenjem prvog posebnoga Zakona o žigu iz 2010. godine koji regulira materiju žigova na čitavom području Bosne i Hercegovine. U ovom radu autor obrazlaže modalitete stjecanja prava na žig, njegovo trajanje, ograničenja korištenja te učinke koje ovo subjektivno apsolutno pravo proizvodi.Trademark law, as a segment of a legal system in Bosnia and Herzegovina, represents a set of legal rules which can be found in different sources of law including the sources in the material as well as in the formal sense; for example direct or indirect legal sources, legal acts or sub-law regulations, national and international legal sources. Modern tendencies in trademark law development, especially these on the international level and within the European Union and WIPO, have influenced the emergence of necessity to further harmonise legislation governing the right to intellectual property in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This resulted with the enactment of the first, special 2010 Trademarks Act in Bosnia and Herzegovina containing provisions that regulate different trademark issues in the whole territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author in the article elaborates on modalities to acquire the trademark rights and as well as on their duration. He pays a special attention to limitations in use and to special effects arising from the absolute, subjective legal rights conferred by a trademark
