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 Slovak Republic, on July 16, 2002, of its instrument of accession to the Patent Law Treaty, adopted at Geneva on June 1, 2000.
The date of entry into force of the said Treaty will be notified when the required number of ratifications or accessions is reached in accordance with Article 21(1) of the said Treaty.
July 16, 2002