Information concerning emergency preparedness plans

Following discussions at the eighth session of the Working Group on Reform of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (from May 8 to 12, 2006), concerning various actions and measures that the International Bureau could take in order to ensure the continuity of essential PCT services and to safeguard the rights of PCT applicants, the International Bureau has collected and makes available this collection of emergency preparedness plans from the following countries/offices:

• Armenia
• Austria
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Canada
• European Patent Office
• France (in French)
• Greece
• Hungary
• Israel
• Lithuania
• Madagascar (in French)
• Netherlands
• Philippines
• Poland
• Republic of Moldova
• Russian Federation
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Switzerland (in French)
• United Kingdom
• Uzbekistan