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Monday, October 02, 2006

NPI Approved by WIPO GA as PCT Authority.

According to

reports from The Danish Patent Office, the Nordic Patent Institute (NPI) has been approved as PCT Authority by the

WIPO General Assembly:

"[...] Since Thursday evening there has been festive mood at the Nordic camp in Geneva. WIPO's General Assembly approved at the yesterday's meeting Nordisk Patent Institut (NPI) as a PCT-authority. NPI is an inter-state organization established by the governments in Denmark, Iceland and Norway as a co-operation between the three countries' patent authorities. The approval is an enormous victory because the Nordic countries have for many years worked on establishing a Nordic patent authority together to benefit for the users. Before the foundation of NPI there had been long political negotiations on Nordic plan, while ahead of the meeting in WIPO there have there been some hectic days, where those delegates from the three countries had been faced with critical voices with the correct arguments. The approval is a proof that the many pieces put together in many years' work now finally have fallen on place. The approval as PCT authority entitles NPI to act as International ISA and IPEA in PCT cases. [...]" [Caution - this is a machine translation from Danish!]