Morocco Accedes to Budapest, Copyright, Performances and Phonograms Treaties
10-May-2011 GENEVA - The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that the Kingdom of Morocco has deposited its instrument of accession to a number of Intellectual Property (IP) related treaties.
According to WIPO, the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco deposited on April 20, 2011, its instrument of accession to the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, done in Budapest on April 28, 1977, and amended on September 26, 1980.
In addition, Morocco deposited on the same date its instrument of accession to the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT), adopted in Geneva on December 20, 1996, and to the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, adopted in Geneva on December 20, 1996.
The said Treaties will enter into force, with respect to the Kingdom of Morocco, on July 20, 2011.