The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify him of the receipt, on April 17, 1998, of a written communication, dated April 16, 1998, from the Government of the United States of America informing the Director General of WIPO of the new address and relevant telephone number of the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), an international depositary authority under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, done at Budapest on April 28, 1977, as amended on September 26, 1980 (see Budapest Notification No. 11 of December 3, 1980).
The new address of the said international depositary authority is as follows:
American Type Culture Collection
10801 University Boulevard
Manassas, Virginia 20110-2209
United States of America
Tel.: 703-365-2700
Fax: 703-365-2745.
May 5, 1998