Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT): Accessionby the United Republic of Tanzania Brings to 103 the Number of ContractingStates of the PCT
Geneva, June 25, 1999
Press Updates UPD/1999/65
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, announces that the United Republic of Tanzania deposited its instrument of accession to the PCT on June 14, 1999, and will become bound by the PCT on September 14, 1999. The United Republic of Tanzania becomes the 103rd Contracting State of the PCT.
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Consequently, in any international application filed on or after September 14, 1999, the United Republic of Tanzania (country code: TZ) 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 the United Republic of Tanzania will be entitled from September 14, 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 103 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 August 3, 1999) Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
Denmark Dominica (from August 7, 1999) 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 Togo Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United Republic of Tanzania (from September 14, 1999) United States of America Uzbekistan Viet Nam Yugoslavia Zimbabwe |
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