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The Patents (Convention Countries) Order 2004

S.I. 2004/3335 · Made 16 December 2004

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PATENTS

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 1977f1, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1977 c. 37.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. 3Article 3
  4. Signature
  5. Schedule 1CONVENTION COUNTRIES
  6. Schedule 2REVOCATIONS
  7. Explanatory note

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.

Signature

A K Galloway

Clerk to the Privy Council

Schedule 1CONVENTION 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 2REVOCATIONS

  • Patents (Convention Countries) Order 1994f1

  • Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 1995f2

  • Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2000f3

  • Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2000f4

  • Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2001f5

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.