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3.1 Convention countries
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Section 5(1) of the Act defines a convention country as “an entity for the time being declared by an order under section 200 to be a convention country for the purposes of that provision”.
The current Order in Council came into effect on 23 August 2012. Seven regional intellectual property (IP) offices, including the European Patent Office and the Office of Harmonisation in the Internal Market are recognised. Convention priority can be claimed directly from applications to these regional offices.
The full list of convention countries can be found in Appendix 1.
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