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This is a list of parties to international patent treaties which are open to all states.
;Paris:
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed in Paris, France, on 20 March 1883, was one of the first intellectual property treaties. It established a Union for the protection of industrial property. The convention is c ...
, Paris, 1883-03-20, came into force 1884-07-07
;PCT:
Patent Cooperation Treaty
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed und ...
, Washington, 1970-06-19, came into force 1978-01-24
;Budapest:
, Budapest, 1977-04-28, came into force 1980-08-19
;TRIPS:
, Marrakech, 1994-04-15, came into force 1995-01-01
;PLT:
Patent Law Treaty
The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is a patent law multilateral treaty concluded on 1 June 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland, by 53 States and the European Patent Organisation (an intergovernmental organization). It aims at harmonizing formal procedures suc ...
, Geneva, 2000-06-01, came into force 2005-04-28
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WIPO
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; french: link=no, Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishin ...
and the
WTO
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation
in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and e ...
. Dates quoted are the date on which the treaty came into effect for a given country.
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See also
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African Regional Intellectual Property Organization
The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), formerly African Regional Industrial Property Organization, is an intergovernmental organization for cooperation among African states in patent and other intellectual property matter ...
(ARIPO)
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Eurasian Patent Organization
The Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) is an international organization set up in 1995 by the Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC) to grant Eurasian patents. The official language of the EAPO is Russian and its current president is Saule Tlevless ...
(EAPO)
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European Patent Organisation
The European Patent Organisation (sometimes abbreviated EPOrg in order to distinguish it from the European Patent Office, one of the two organs of the organisation) is a public international organisation created in 1977 by its contracting states t ...
(EPO)
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World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; french: link=no, Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the list of specialized agencies of the United Nations, 15 specialized agencies of the United Nation ...
(WIPO)
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World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation
in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and e ...
(WTO)
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List of parties to international copyright treaties
Below is a list of countries which have signed and ratified one or more multilateral international copyright treaties. This list covers only multilateral treaties (i.e., treaties by more than two countries). It does not include bilateral treati ...
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List of parties to international related rights treaties
Below is a list of countries which have signed and ratified one or more international treaties protecting rights related to copyright.
Related rights protect performers, producers of sound recordings (phonograms) and broadcasting organisations. In ...
References
External links
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial PropertyBudapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure*
ttps://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/plt/ Patent Law Treaty
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Patent law lists
*Parties
Patents
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...