Appendix A: Recognized Countries of Foreign Filing

Algeria*

Argentina*

Australia*

Austria*

Bahamas*

Bangladesh*

Barbados*

Belgium*

Benin*

Bolivia^

Brazil*^

Bulgaria*

Burkina Faso*

Burundi*

Cameroon*

Canada*

Central African Republic*

Chad, Republic of*

Congo*

Costa Rica^

Cote d'Ivoire*

Cuba*^

Cyprus*

Czechoslovakia*

Democratic People's Republic of Korea*

Denmark*

Dominican Republic*^

Ecuador^

Egypt*

Finland*

France*

Gabon*

Gambia*

German Democratic Republic*

Germany, Federal Republic of*

Ghana*

Greece*

Guinea*

Guinea-Bissau*

Guatemala^

Haiti*^

Holy See*

Honduras^

Hungary*

Iceland*

Indonesia*

Iran*

Iraq*

Ireland*

Israel*

Italy*

Japan*

Jordan*

Kenya*

Korea, Republic of*

Lebanon*

Lesotho*

Libya*

Liechtenstein*

Luxembourg*

Madagascar*

Malawi*

Malaysia*

Mali*

Malta*

Mauritania*

Mauritius*

Mexico*

Monaco*

Mongolia*

Morocco*

Netherlands*

New Zealand*

Nicaragua^

Niger*

Nigeria*

Norway*

Paraguay^

Philippines*

Poland*

Portugal*

Romania*

Rwanda*

San Marino*

Senegal, Republic of*

South Africa, Republic of*

Soviet Union*

Spain*

Sri Lanka*

Sudan*

Suriname*

Swaziland*

Sweden*

Switzerland*

Syria*

Tanzania*

Togo*

Trinidad and Tobago*

Tunisia*

Turkey*

Uganda*

United Kingdom*

Uruguay*^

Viet Nam*

Yugoslavia*

Zaire*

Zambia*

Zimbabwe*

 


 

*Adherents to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (613 O.G. 23, 53 Stat. 1748) as per MPEP 201.13.

 

^Adherents to the Inter-American Convention relating to Inventions, Patents, Designs and Industrial Models, signed at Buenos Aires, August 20, 1910 (207 O.G. 935, 38 Stat. 1811) as per MPEP 201.13.

 


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