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 deposit by the Government of the Russian Federation, on May 12, 2009, of its instrument of accession to the Patent Law Treaty, adopted at Geneva on June 1, 2000. The said instrument contained a declaration in accordance with Article 23(1).
The said Treaty will enter into force, with respect to the Russian Federation, on August 12, 2009.
May 12, 2009