Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) - Accession by Costa Rica Brings to 101 the Number of Contracting States of the PCT
Geneva, May 11, 1999
Press Updates UPD/1999/57
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, announces that Costa Rica deposited its instrument of accession to the PCT on May 3, 1999, and will become bound by the PCT on August 3, 1999. Costa Rica becomes the 101st Contracting State of the PCT.
Consequently, in any international application filed on or after August 3, 1999, Costa Rica (country code: CR) may be designated and, because it is bound by Chapter II of the PCT, may also be elected for the purposes of international preliminary examination. Furthermore, nationals and residents of Costa Rica will be entitled from August 3, 1999, to file international applications under the PCT.
The PCT is a system which offers inventors and industry an advantageous route for obtaining patent protection worldwide. The present 101 Contracting States of the PCT are the following:
| Albania Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Barbados Belarus Belgium Benin Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad China Congo Costa Rica (from 3 August 1999) Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus |
Czech Republic Democratic People's Republic of Korea Denmark Estonia Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guinea Guinea-Bissau Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Kyrgyzstan |
Latvia Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mexico Monaco Mongolia Netherlands New Zealand Niger Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Korea Republic of Moldova Romania Russian Federation Saint Lucia Senegal Sierra Leone Singapore |
Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Tajikistan The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Togo Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America Uzbekistan Viet Nam Yugoslavia Zimbabwe |
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