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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2004 No. 3335

PATENTS

The Patents (Convention Countries) Order 2004

  Made 16th December 2004 
  Laid before Parliament 10th January 2005 
  Coming into force 31st January 2005 

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 16th day of December 2004

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by sections 90(1) and 124(3) of the Patents Act 1977[1], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:

     1. This Order may be cited as the Patents (Convention Countries) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 31st January 2005.

     2. The countries specified in Schedule 1 are declared to be convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977.

     3. The Orders set out in Schedule 2 are hereby revoked.


A K Galloway
Clerk to the Privy Council


SCHEDULE 1
Article 2


CONVENTION COUNTRIES


Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Brunei Darussalam

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

China

Columbia

Congo

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Costa Rica

Cote d'Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Estonia

Faeroe Islands

Fiji

Finland

France (including Overseas Departments and Territories)

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Holy See

Honduras

Hong Kong

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

Korea, Republic of

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macao

Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Moldova, Republic of

Monaco

Mongolia

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

Namibia

Nepal

Netherlands

Netherlands Antilles and Aruba

New Zealand (including the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau)

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Norway

Oman

Pakistan

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Qatar

Romania

Russian Federation

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia and Montenegro

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Swaziland

Sweden

Switzerland

Syrian Arab Republic

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Tanzania, United Republic of

Thailand

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United States of America (including Puerto Rico and all territories and possessions)

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Venezuela

Viet Nam

Zambia

Zimbabwe



SCHEDULE 2
Article 3


REVOCATIONS


Patents (Convention Countries) Order 1994[2]

Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 1995[3]

Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2000[4]

Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2000[5]

Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2001[6]


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order, pursuant to section 90(1) of the Patents Act 1977, declares the countries specified in Schedule 1 to be convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977. Section 5 of that Act affords certain rights of priority to applicants for patents, and this Order provides those rights of priority to applications filed in the countries specified in this Order. In this Order the term "country" includes colonies, protectorates and territories by reason of section 90(3) of that Act.

The majority of the countries specified in the Order have acceded to the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property ("the Paris Convention") (as revised at Stockholm in 1967) (Cmnd. 4431) or the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation (including the Agreement on Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) (Cm. 2556-59, 2561-69, 2571-74).

With the exception of Andorra, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro and the Seychelles all of the specified countries are already considered to be convention countries for the purposes of section 5.

This Order revokes the Patents (Convention Countries) Order 1994 (SI 1994/3220) and the four other Instruments that amended that Order listed in Schedule 2. This Order provides a consolidated list of countries that are convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977.

Notes:

 [1] 1977 c. 37.back

[2] SI 1994/3220.back

[3] SI 1995/2989.back

[4] SI 2000/1114.back

[5] SI 2000/1560.back

[6] SI 2001/2126.back


ISBN 0 11 051340 1


  © Crown copyright 2004

Prepared 10 January 2005

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