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Treaties Relating to Intellectual Property Rights

There are many treaties of an international scope which relate to intellectual property rights. A few articles are listed below. But the reader will discover, upon during a search at this site, that there are many articles in our Newsletters over the years which also deal with such treaties.

Treaties relating to intellectual property rights include those listed below (the names have sometimes been shortened to make this list more readable).

• Paris Convention
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
• European Patent Convention (EPC)
• Madrid Arrangement and Protocol (Madrid)
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO)
• Budapest Treaty on the Deposit of Micro-organisms
• Trademark Law Treaty
• Nice Agreement on Trademark Classification
• Hague Convention on the Legalization of Documents
• Eurasian Patent Convention
• African Organization for Intellectual Property (OAPI)
• African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO)
• Berne Convention
• Universal Copyright Convention (UCC)
• Hague Design Convention

Intellectual Property Provisions of GATT have had a large effect on the Intellectual Property Laws of countries around the world.

Protecting Technology and Inventions Internationally - learn about how the Paris Convention and Patent Cooperation Treaty impact when patent applications must be filed.