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The Patents (Convention Countries) Order 2006

S.I. 2006/315 · Made 14 February 2006

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PATENTS

Made 14th February 2006

Laid before Parliament 24th February 2006

Coming into force 6th April 2006

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of February 2006

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 90(1) and 124(3) of the Patents Act 1977f1, makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1977 c. 37.

Contents

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

1

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Patents (Convention Countries) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 6th April 2006.

(2)

The Patents (Convention Countries) Order 2004f1 is revoked.

2

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

Signature

A.K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

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

  • Comoros

  • 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

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, pursuant to section 90(1) of the Patents Act 1977 (c. 37), declares the countries specified in the Schedule 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. 3044-6, 3080, 3263-4, 3268-9, 3271, 3275-7 and 3282).

This Order revokes the Patents (Convention Countries) Order 2004 (SI 2004/3335) (“the 2004 Order”). This Order provides a consolidated list of countries that are convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977 and the only substantive change from the 2004 Order is the addition of the Comoros to the Schedule.