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Intellectual Property Treaties
Intellectual Property Protection Treaties
The first general group of treaties defines internationally agreed basic standards of intellectual property protection in each country.
• Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works Paris Act
• Brussels Convention Relating to the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite
• Film Register Treaty(Treaty on the International Registration of Audiovisual Works)
• Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source on Goods
• Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Patent Law Treaty
• Phonograms Convention (Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms)
• Rome Convention, 1961 International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations
• Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks
• Trademark Law Treaty
• Washington Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits
• WIPO Copyright Treaty
• WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
• International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants(UPOV)
Global Protection System Treaties
The second general group, known as the global protection system treaties, ensures that one international registration or filing will have effect in any of the relevant signatory States. The services provided by WIPO under these treaties simplify and reduce the cost of making individual applications or filings in all the countries in which protection is sought for a given intellectual property right.
• Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure
• Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs
• Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration
• Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
• Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
Treaties on Classifications
The third and final general group is the classification treaties, which create classification systems that organize information concerning inventions, trademarks and industrial designs into indexed, manageable structures for easy retrieval.
• Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs
• Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
• Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
• Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks
Eurasian Patent Convention
The Eurasian Patent Convention became operative on January 1, 1996, and can be designated in PCT applications (under code EA) on or after that date. Its present members are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
• Eurasian Patent Convention
• Patent Regulations under the Eurasian Patent Convention (PDF File, 233 Kb)
• French version of Patent Regulations under the Eurasian Patent Convention is also available now (PDF File, 256 Kb)
• Statute on Fees on the Eurasian Patent Organization
• Interpretations of the Eurasian Patent Office concerning the new edition of the Statute on Fees of the Eurasian Patent Organization
• List of States parties to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (in accordance with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) publication General Information, Geneva, 1996), applicants from which are given preferential treatment
• " Statute of Eurasian Patent Attorneys
• Changes and Additions to the Statute of Fees Charged by the Eurasian Patent Organization (Come into Force from March 1, 1998)
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