Cambodia recognises European patents
06.02.2017
An agreement has been signed according to which the validity of a European patent application and of the European patent obtained on the basis of this application could be extended to Cambodia upon request of the applicant. This agreement will enter into force once it is adopted into Cambodian law. The date of 01/07/2017 is tentatively indicated.
However, please note that, for the moment, Cambodia wish to make use of the WTO waiver regarding pharmaceutical products. This is why pharmaceutical products will be excluded from the agreement during the transitional period.
With this agreement, the number of countries in which it will be possible to obtain a protection by a single European patent application will go from 42 to 43 :
38 state members :AL Albania
AT Austria
BE Belgium
BG Bulgaria
CH Switzerland
CY Cyprus
CZ Czech Republic
DE Germany
DK Denmark
EE Estonia
ES Spain
FI Finland
FR France
GB United Kingdom
GR Greece
HR Croatia
HU Hungary
IE Ireland
IS Iceland
IT Italy
LI Liechtenstein
LT Lithuania
LU Luxembourg
LV Latvia
MC Monaco
MK Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
MT Malta
NL Netherlands
NO Norway
PL Poland
PT Portugal
RO Romania
RS Serbia
SE Sweden
SI Slovenia
SK Slovakia
SM San Marino
TR Turkey
2 extension states BA Bosnia-Herzegovina
ME Montenegro
2 validation states MA Morocco
MD Republic of Moldova
