IPO Closed Dates

Intellectual property Offices’ closed dates are furnished yearly by the respective Offices. They are then expanded and updated with subsequent information received by the International Bureau.

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
AE	United Arab Emirates
AG	Antigua and Barbuda
AL	Albania
AM	Armenia
AO	Angola
AP	African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO)
AT	Austria
AU	Australia
AZ	Azerbaijan

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
BA	Bosnia and Herzegovina
BB	Barbados
BE	Belgium
BG	Bulgaria
BH	Bahrain
BN	Brunei Darussalam
BR	Brazil
BW	Botswana
BY	Belarus
BZ	Belize

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
CA	Canada
CH	Switzerland
CL	Chile
CN	China
CO	Colombia
CR	Costa Rica
CU	Cuba
CY	Cyprus
CZ	Czechia

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
DE	Germany
DJ	Djibouti
DK	Denmark
DM	Dominica
DO	Dominican Republic
DZ	Algeria

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
EA	Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO)
EC	Ecuador
EE	Estonia
EG	Egypt
EP	European Patent Organisation (EPO)
ES	Spain

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
FI	Finland
FR	France

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
GB	United Kingdom
GD	Grenada
GE	Georgia
GH	Ghana
GM	Gambia
GR	Greece
GT	Guatemala

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
HN	Honduras
HR	Croatia
HU	Hungary

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
IB	International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
ID	Indonesia
IE	Ireland
IL	Israel
IN	India
IR	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
IS	Iceland
IT	Italy

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
JO	Jordan
JP	Japan

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
KE	Kenya
KG	Kyrgyzstan
KH	Cambodia
KN	Saint Kitts and Nevis
KP	Democratic People's Republic of Korea
KR	Republic of Korea
KW	Kuwait
KZ	Kazakhstan

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
LA	Lao People's Democratic Republic
LC	Saint Lucia
LK	Sri Lanka
LR	Liberia
LS	Lesotho
LT	Lithuania
LU	Luxembourg
LV	Latvia
LY	Libya

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
MA	Morocco
MC	Monaco
MD	Republic of Moldova
ME	Montenegro
MG	Madagascar
MK	North Macedonia
MN	Mongolia
MT	Malta
MW	Malawi
MX	Mexico
MY	Malaysia
MZ	Mozambique

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
NA	Namibia
NG	Nigeria
NI	Nicaragua
NL	Netherlands
NO	Norway
NZ	New Zealand

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
OA	African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI)
OM	Oman

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
PA	Panama
PE	Peru
PG	Papua New Guinea
PH	Philippines
PL	Poland
PT	Portugal

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
QA	Qatar

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
RO	Romania
RS	Serbia
RU	Russian Federation
RW	Rwanda

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
SA	Saudi Arabia
SC	Seychelles
SD	Sudan
SE	Sweden
SG	Singapore
SI	Slovenia
SK	Slovakia
SL	Sierra Leone
SM	San Marino
ST	Sao Tome and Principe
SV	El Salvador
SY	Syrian Arab Republic

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
TH	Thailand
TJ	Tajikistan
TM	Turkmenistan
TN	Tunisia
TR	Turkey
TT	Trinidad and Tobago
TZ	United Republic of Tanzania

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
UA	Ukraine
UG	Uganda
US	United States of America
UZ	Uzbekistan

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
VC	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
VN	Viet Nam

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
XN	Nordic Patent Institute
XV	Visegrad Patent Institute

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Two-Letter Code	Country or Organization
ZA	South Africa
ZM	Zambia
ZW	Zimbabwe