BUDAPEST TREATY ON THE INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE DEPOSIT OF MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PURPOSES OF PATENT PROCEDURE

Done at Budapest on April 28, 1977, and amended on September 26, 1980

AND

REGULATIONS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

• Article 1: Establishment of a Union

• Article 2: Definitions

CHAPTER I: SUBSTANTIVE PROVISIONS

• Article 3: Recognition and Effect of the Deposit of Microorganisms

• Article 4: New Deposit

• Article 5: Export and Import Restrictions

• Article 6: Status of International Depositary Authority

• Article 7: Acquisition of the Status of international Depositary Authority

• Article 8: Termination and Limitation of the Status of International Depositary Authority

• Article 9: Intergovernmental Industrial Property Organizations

CHAPTER II: ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

• Article 10: Assembly

• Article 11: International Bureau

• Article 12: Regulations

CHAPTER III: REVISION AND AMENDMENT

• Article 13: Revision of the Treaty

• Article 14: Amendment of Certain Provisions of the Treaty

CHAPTER IV: FINAL PROVISIONS

• Article 15: Becoming Party to the Treaty

• Article 16: Entry Into Force of the Treaty

• Article 17: Denunciation of the Treaty

• Article 18: Signature and Languages of the Treaty

• Article 19: Deposit of the Treaty; Transmittal of Copies; Registration of the Treaty

• Article 20: Notifications

REGULATIONS - TABLE OF CONTENTS

This Table of Contents is added for the convenience of the reader. It does not appear in theoriginal (English) text of the Treaty.