The country of convention priority is identified by a two-letter code conforming to the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) Standard ST.3 "Recommended Standard on Two-Letter Codes for the Representation of States, Other Entities and Intergovernmental Organizations".
The code for convention countries is as follows:
Code | Country |
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AD | Andorra |
AE | United Arab Emirates |
AG | Antigua and Barbuda |
AL | Albania |
AM | Armenia |
AO | Angola |
AP | African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) |
AR | Argentina |
AT | Austria |
AU | Australia |
AZ | Azerbaijan |
BA | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
BB | Barbados |
BD | Bangladesh |
BE | Belgium |
BF | Burkina Faso |
BG | Bulgaria |
BH | Bahrain |
BI | Burundi |
BJ | Benin |
BN | Brunei Darussalam |
BO | Bolivia |
BR | Brazil |
BS | Bahamas |
BT | Bhutan |
BW | Botswana |
BQ | Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba |
BX | Benelux Office |
BY | Belarus |
BZ | Belize |
CA | Canada |
CD | Democratic Republic of Congo |
CF | Central African Republic |
CG | Congo |
CH | Switzerland |
CI | Cote d'Ivoire |
CL | Chile |
CM | Cameroon |
CN | China |
CO | Colombia |
CR | Costa Rica |
CU | Cuba |
CV | Cape Verde |
CW | Curacao |
CY | Cyprus |
CZ | Czechia |
DE | Germany |
DJ | Djibouti |
DK | Denmark |
DM | Dominica |
DO | Dominican Republic |
DZ | Algeria |
EA | Eurasian Patent Organisation (EAPO) |
EC | Ecuador |
EE | Estonia |
EG | Egypt |
EM | European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) |
EP | European Patent Office |
ES | Spain |
EU | European Union |
FI | Finland |
FJ | Fiji |
FR | France |
GA | Gabon |
GB | United Kingdom |
GC | Patent Office for the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GC) |
GD | Grenada |
GE | Georgia |
GH | Ghana |
GM | Gambia |
GN | Guinea |
GQ | Equatorial Guinea |
GR | Greece |
GT | Guatemala |
GW | Guinea-Bissau |
GY | Guyana |
HK | Hong Kong, China |
HN | Honduras |
HR | Croatia |
HT | Haiti |
HU | Hungary |
ID | Indonesia |
IE | Ireland |
IL | Israel |
IN | India |
IQ | Iraq |
IR | Islamic Republic of Iran |
IS | Iceland |
IT | Italy |
JM | Jamaica |
JO | Jordan |
JP | Japan |
KE | Kenya |
KG | Kyrgyz Republic |
KH | Cambodia |
KM | Comoros |
KN | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
KP | Democratic People's Republic Korea |
KR | Republic of Korea |
KW | Kuwait |
KZ | Kazakhstan |
LA | Lao People's Democratic Republic |
LB | Lebanon |
LC | Saint Lucia |
LI | Liechtenstein |
LK | Sri Lanka |
LR | Liberia |
LS | Lesotho |
LT | Lithuania |
LU | Luxembourg |
LV | Latvia |
LY | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya |
MA | Morocco |
MC | Monaco |
MD | Republic of Moldova |
ME | Montenegro |
MG | Madagascar |
MK | Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
ML | Mali |
MM | Myanmar |
MN | Mongolia |
MO | Macau, China |
MR | Mauritania |
MT | Malta |
MU | Mauritius |
MV | Maldives |
MW | Malawi |
MX | Mexico |
MY | Malaysia |
MZ | Mozambique |
NA | Namibia |
NE | Niger |
NG | Nigeria |
NI | Nicaragua |
NL | Netherlands |
NO | Norway |
NP | Nepal |
NZ | New Zealand |
OA | African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) |
OM | Oman |
PA | Panama |
PE | Peru |
PG | Papua New Guinea |
PH | Philippines |
PK | Pakistan |
PL | Poland |
PT | Portugal |
PY | Paraguay |
QA | Qatar |
QZ | Community Plant Variety Office (European Union) (CPVO) |
RO | Romania |
RS | Serbia |
RU | Russian Federation |
RW | Rwanda |
SA | Saudi Arabia |
SB | Solomon Islands |
SC | Seychelles |
SD | Sudan |
SE | Sweden |
SG | Singapore |
SI | Slovenia |
SK | Slovak Republic |
SL | Sierra Leone |
SM | San Marino |
SN | Senegal |
SR | Suriname |
SS | South Sudan |
ST | Sao Tome and Principe |
SV | El Salvador |
SX | Saint Maarten |
SY | Syrian Arab Republic |
SZ | Eswatini |
TD | Chad |
TG | Togo |
TH | Thailand |
TJ | Tajikistan |
TM | Turkmenistan |
TN | Tunisia |
TO | Tonga |
TR | Turkey |
TT | Trinidad and Tobago |
TW | Taiwan |
TZ | Tanzania, United Republic of |
UA | Ukraine |
UG | Uganda |
US | United States of America |
UY | Uruguay |
UZ | Uzbekistan |
VA | Holy See (Vatican City) |
VC | Saint Vincent and Grenadines |
VE | Venezuela |
VN | Vietnam |
WS | Samoa |
XN | Nordic Patent Institute (NPI) |
XU | International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) |
XV | Visegrad Patent Institute (VPI) |
XX | Unknown |
YE | Yemen |
ZA | South Africa |
ZM | Zambia |
ZW | Zimbabwe |