Industrial Property Agreements, Conventions and Treaties

As a Specialized Agency of the United Nations whose mandate is to promote the protection of intellectual property worldwide, WIPO administers some 23 treaties in the field of intellectual property.

The following group of Agreement, Conventions and Treaties are related to Industrial property; Section of Intellectual property, and defines internationally agreed basic standards of industrial property protection, international registration or filing and international classification systems.

• Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure
• Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs
• International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
• Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration
• Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs
• Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
• Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source on Goods
• Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol
• Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
• Patent Law Treaty
• Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
• Trademark Law Treaty
• Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks
• Washington Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits (IPIC)

*(Source of this Published Information was taken from WIPO Site on the Internet)