Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT): Accessionby the United Republic of Tanzania Brings to 103 the Number of ContractingStates of the PCT

Geneva, June 25, 1999
Press Updates UPD/1999/65

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, announces that the United Republic of Tanzania deposited its instrument of accession to the PCT on June 14, 1999, and will become bound by the PCT on September 14, 1999. The United Republic of Tanzania becomes the 103rd Contracting State of the PCT.

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Consequently, in any international application filed on or after September 14, 1999, the United Republic of Tanzania (country code: TZ) may be designated and, because it is bound by Chapter II of the PCT, may also be elected for the purposes of international preliminary examination. Furthermore, nationals and residents of the United Republic of Tanzania will be entitled from September 14, 1999, to file international applications under the PCT.

The PCT is a system which offers inventors and industry an advantageous route for obtaining patent protection worldwide. The present 103 Contracting States of the PCT are the following:

Albania

Armenia

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Benin

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Republic

Chad

China

Congo

Costa Rica (from August 3, 1999)

Côte d'Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

 Denmark

Dominica (from August 7, 1999)

Estonia

Finland

France

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Grenada

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Japan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kyrgyzstan

Latvia

Lesotho

Liberia

Liechtenstein

 Lithuania

Luxembourg

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Mauritania

Mexico

Monaco

Mongolia

Netherlands

New Zealand

Niger

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Republic of Korea

Republic of Moldova

Romania

Russian Federation

Saint Lucia

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Swaziland

 Sweden

Switzerland

Tajikistan

The former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Togo

Trinidad and Tobago

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United Republic of Tanzania (from September 14, 1999)

United States of America

Uzbekistan

Viet Nam

Yugoslavia

Zimbabwe

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