Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks
The Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks was adopted in Singapore on March 27, 2006.<ref>WIPO, Negotiators adopt Singapore Treaty to facilitate international trademark registration, Press Release 442, Geneva/Singapore, March 28, 2006.</ref> It entered into force on March 16, 2009,<ref>WIPO, Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks to Enter into Force in 2009, PR/2008/581, Geneva, December 17, 2008.</ref> following the ratification or accession of ten countries, namely Singapore, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Romania, Denmark, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, United States, Moldova, and Australia.<ref>Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Consulted on December 25, 2008.</ref> The treaty establishes common standards for procedural aspects of trademark registration and licensing.
As of July 2016, there are 45 contracting parties to the treaty, which includes 43 states plus the African Intellectual Property Organization and the Benelux Organization for Intellectual Property.<ref>World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Contracting Parties>Singapore Treaty (as of January 8, 2014).</ref>
References
External links
- Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks in the WIPO Lex database — official website of WIPO.
- The full text of the Singapore Treaty on the Law of TrademarksTemplate:Ref-en
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