WIPO Convention

The WIPO Convention (formally, the Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization) is a multilateral treaty that established the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

The convention was signed at Stockholm, Sweden, on 14 July 1967 and entered into force on 26 April 1970. As of August 2020, the convention has 193 parties: 190 UN member states plus the Cook Islands, the Holy See and Niue. The three UN member states that have not ratified the WIPO Convention are:

The convention is written in English, French, Russian and Spanish, all texts being equally authentic. The convention was amended on 28 September 1979.

See also

• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
• World Intellectual Property Day

References

External links

• Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, on the WIPO web site
  • The full text of the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (in English) in the WIPO Lex database – official website of WIPO.

1. World Intellectual Property Organization
2. WIPO Copyright Treaty
3. Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
4. Berne Convention
5. Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization
6. WIPO Lex
7. World Intellectual Property Day
8. List of parties to international copyright agreements
9. List of treaties by number of parties
10. WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
11. Convention Relating to the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite
12. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
13. Copyright Act (Canada)
14. Canadian Intellectual Property Office
15. Eurasian Patent Convention
16. Copyright law of India
17. List of copyright terms of countries
18. List of parties to international treaties protecting rights related to copyright
19. Copyright law of Canada
20. Article 6ter