The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and, pursuant to Article 68(4) of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), done at Washington on June 19, 1970, amended on September 28, 1979, modified on February 3, 1984, and on October 3, 2001, has the honor to transmit herewith certified copies, in English and in French, of the amendments to the Regulations under the PCT, adopted on October 9, 2019, by the Assembly of the International Patent Cooperation Union (PCT Union), at its Fifty-First (22nd ordinary) session, held in Geneva from September 30 to October 9, 2019. The said amendments will enter into force on July 1, 2020.
January 31, 2020