Examples of Harare Protocol in a sentence
The national patent office will in most cases act as a “PCT Receiving Office.” If the applicant is a national or resident of a country which is party to one of certain regional patent treaties (the ARIPO Harare Protocol, the OAPI Bangui Agreement, the Eurasian Patent Convention or the European Patent Convention), he may alternatively file the international patent application with the regional Patent Office con- cerned if permitted by the applicable national law.
It has the effect of a regional patent application in those PCT Contracting States which are also party to a regional patent treaty (the ARIPO Harare Protocol, the Eurasian Patent Convention, the European Patent Convention and the OAPI Agreement), provided they are designated for the regional patent concerned.
If you are a national or resident of a country which is party to one of certain regional patent treaties (the ARIPO Harare Protocol, the OAPI Agreement, the Eurasian Patent Convention and the European Patent Convention), you may alternatively file your international patent application with the regional Patent Office concerned, if permitted by the applicable national law.
The case provides a good example of Harare Protocol with 19 members, namely Botswana, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Mozambique has been a member of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) since May 2000.122 The Harare Protocol of the Lusaka Agreement provides for regional filing of patent applications through the ARIPO.