Art.2 |
Article 2 Definitions |
Art.2.1x |
For the purposes of this Treaty and the Regulations: |
Art.2.1x.I |
(i) references to a "patent" shall be construed as references to patents for inventions, inventors' certificates, utility certificates, utility models, patents or certificates of addition, inventors' certificates of addition, and utility certificates of addition; |
Art.2.1x.ii |
(ii) "deposit of a microorganism" means, according to the context in which these words appear, the following acts effected in accordance with this Treaty and the Regulations; the transmittal of a microorganism to an international depositary authority, which receives and accepts it, or the storage of such a microorganism by the international depositary authority, or both the said transmittal and the said storage; |
Art.2.1x.iii |
(iii) "patent procedure" means any administrative or judicial procedure relating to a patent application or a patent; |
Art.2.1x.iv |
(iv) "publication for the purposes of patent procedure" means the official publication, or the official laying open for public inspection, of a patent application or a patent; |
Art.2.1x.v |
(v) "intergovernmental industrial property organization" means an organization that has filed a declaration under Article 9(1); |
Art.2.1x.vi |
(vi) "industrial property office" means an authority of a Contracting State or an intergovernmental industrial property organization competent for the grant of patents; |
Art.2.1x.vii |
(vii) "depositary institution" means an institution which provides for the receipt, acceptance and storage of microorganisms and the furnishing of samples thereof; |
Art.2.1x.viii |
(viii) "international depositary authority" means a depositary institution which has acquired the status of international depositary authority as provided in Article 7; |
Art.2.1x.ix |
(ix) "depositor" means the natural person or legal entity transmitting a microorganism to an international depositary authority, which receives and accepts it, and any successor in title of the said natural person or legal entity; |
Art.2.1x.x |
(x) "Union" means the Union referred to in Article 1; |
Art.2.1x.xi |
(xi) "Assembly" means the Assembly referred to in Article 10; |
Art.2.1x.xii |
(xii) "Organization" means the World Intellectual Property Organization; |
Art.2.1x.xiii |
(xiii) "International Bureau" means the International Bureau of the Organization and, as long as it subsists, the United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI); |
Art.2.1x.xiv |
(xiv) "Director General" means the Director General of the Organization; |
Art.2.1x.xv |
(xv) "Regulations" means the Regulations referred to in Article 12. |
Sect.1 |
CHAPTER I SUBSTANTIVE PROVISIONS |