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 the receipt on May 3, 2018, of a communication of the Kingdom of Belgium, dated April 27, 2018, relating to a change of the name of the BCCM/LMBP Plasmid and DNA Library collection, one of the collections of the Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Microorganisms (BCCM™), an International Depositary Authority (IDA) 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, and amended on September 26, 1980 (see Budapest Notification No. 104 of February 12, 1992).
June 14, 2018
Text of the communication by the Kingdom of Belgium Relating to a Change in the Name of the BCCM/LMBP Plasmid and DNA Library collection, one of the collections of the Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Microorganisms (BCCM™)
[Original: English]
COMMUNICATION
The consortium of the Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Microorganisms (BCCM™), is the International Depositary Authority (IDA) for which the Belgian State has furnished the necessary assurances as specified in Article 6(2) of the Budapest Treaty.
Since 1st January 2018, one of the entities of the BCCM™ consortium, BCCM/LMBP Plasmid and DNA Library collection, has changed its name into BCCM/GeneCorner. Apart from the e-mail address, the contact details have remained unchanged:
BCCM/GeneCorner Plasmid Collection
Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology
Ghent University
Technologiepark, 927
9052 Zwijnaarde
Telephone: (32-9) 331 38 43
Facsimile: (32-9) 331 35 04
E-mail: bccm.genecorner@dmbr.UGent.be
The unique LMBP reference numbers given to biological material deposited in the collection will be kept and also future reference numbers will start with the acronym LMBP.