•Paris convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
 (Since 1965)

The Paris Convention is concerned with the protection of industrial property, which includes patents, industrial designs and trademarks, and with the repression of unfair competition. This Convention requires each member country to accord nationals of other member countries the same rights for their industrial property as it accords to its own nationals.

•Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization
 (Since 1980)

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an intergovernmental organization in the United Nations system of organization responsible for the promotion of intellectual property throughout the world through cooperation among member states, and for the administration of various "unions", each founded on a multilateral treaty and dealing with the legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property.

•Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms
 for Purposes of Patent Procedure
 (Since 1981)

The Budapest Treaty provides for the deposit of microorganism in an international depository authority where a deposit is necessary to satisfy the descriptive requirements of patents legislation for inventions involving a microorganism or the use of a microorganism. The deposit assures access to the microorganism by persons other than the inventor for the purpose of testing or experimenting, or for commercial use when the patent expires. Under this treaty, a member state which allows or requires the deposit of microorganisms for the purposes of patent procedure must recognize, for such purpose, one deposit of a microorganism with any international depository authority, irrespective of its location.

•Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers,
 Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations
 (Since 1984)

The Rome Convention is concerned in securing the protection of performances or performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting organizations.