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Its aim is to harmonize formal procedures such as the requirements to obtain a filing date for a patent application, the form and content of a patent application, and representation.

See also

• The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed in Paris, France, on March 20, 1883, is an important and one of the first intellectual property treaties. Thanks to this treaty, intellectual property systems, including patents, of any contracting state are accessible to the nationals of other states party... Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• The Patent Cooperation Treaty (or PCT) provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions worldwide. A single filing results in a single search (and optionally a preliminary examination), after which the examination (if provided by national law) and grant procedures are handled by the relevant national or... Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
• Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT)

External links

• Official page (http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/plt/index.html) on the The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations, and has as its core objectives the promotion of creative intellectual activity and the facilitation of the transfer of technology related to intellectual property to the developing countries in order to accelerate economic, social... WIPO web site