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 deposit by the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), on December 15, 2022, of the following declaration:
- "OAPI declares that pursuant to Article 9(1)(a) of 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 (Budapest Treaty), it accepts the obligation of recognition provided for in Article 3(1)(a) of the Budapest Treaty, the obligation concerning the requirements referred to in Article 3(2) of the said Treaty and all the effects of the provisions of the said Treaty and its Regulations applicable to intergovernmental industrial property organizations."
The said declaration will enter into force, with respect to the African Intellectual Property Organization, on March 15, 2023.
December 15, 2022