On November 22, WIPO and the Andean countries of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia adopted the Treaty on the Law of Designs, known as the Riyadh Treaty.
The Andean Community countries succeeded in including the requirement for indicating the origin of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions related to industrial design, in order to protect our indigenous peoples and local communities.
The Riyadh Treaty will enter into force once it is ratified by 15 Contracting Parties.
In light of the Riyadh Treaty, we are reviewing the treaties administered by WIPO that are binding for the countries of the Andean Community, acknowledging that some Andean countries apply these treaties in practice, even if they are not legally binding.
Protection of Intellectual Property:
- Rome Convention: 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 – Protection of performers, producers of phonograms, and broadcasting organizations.
- Phonograms Convention: 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 – Protection of phonogram producers against unauthorized reproduction of their phonograms.
- Berne Convention: 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 – For the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
- Brussels Convention: 🇨🇴 🇵🇪 – On the distribution of program-carrying signals transmitted by satellite.
- Paris Convention: 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 – For the Protection of Industrial Property.
- Beijing Treaty: 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 – On Audiovisual Performances.
- Marrakesh Treaty: 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 – To Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled.
- Nairobi Treaty: 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇵🇪 – On the Protection of the Olympic Symbol.
- WIPO Copyright Treaty: 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 – Protects works and the rights of authors in the digital environment.
- WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty: 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 – Covers intellectual property rights of performers and phonogram producers in the digital environment.
- WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, and Associated Traditional Knowledge: 🇨🇴 🇵🇪.
- Trademark Law Treaty: 🇨🇴 🇵🇪 – To harmonize and streamline national and regional trademark registration procedures.
- Singapore Treaty: 🇵🇪 – Broader in scope than the Trademark Law Treaty, reflecting recent developments in communication technologies.
Registration:
- Budapest Treaty: 🇨🇴 🇵🇪 – On the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure.
- Lisbon Agreement: 🇵🇪 – On the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration.
- Madrid Protocol: 🇨🇴 – Relating to the Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks.
- Patent Cooperation Treaty: 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪.
Classification:
- Locarno Agreement: 🇵🇪 – Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs.
- Nice Agreement: 🇵🇪 – Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Registration of Marks.
- Strasbourg Agreement: 🇵🇪 – Concerning the International Patent Classification.
- Vienna Agreement: 🇵🇪 – Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks.
