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II SÉRIE-A — NÚMERO 31

RESOLUÇÃO

APROVA, PARA ADESÃO, 0 TRATADO DE BUDAPESTE SOBRE 0 RECONHECIMENTO INTERNACIONAL DO DEPÓSITO DE MICRORGANISMOS PARA EFEITOS DO PROCEDIMENTO EM MATÉRIA DE PATENTES, ADOPTADO EM BUDAPESTE EM 28 DE ABRIL DE 1977 E ALTERADO EM 26 DE SETEMBRO DE 1980.

A Assembleia da República resolve, nos termos dos artigos 164.°, alínea 169.°, n.° 5, da Constituição, aprovar, para adesão, o-Tratado de Budapeste sobre o Reconhecimento Internacional do Depósito de Microrganismos para Efeitos do Procedimento em Matéria de Patentes, adoptado em Budapeste em 28 de Abril de 1977 e alterado em 26 de Setembro de 1980, cuja versão autêntica em língua inglesa e respectiva tradução em língua portuguesa seguem em anexo.

Aprovada em 13 de Fevereiro de 1997.

O Presidente da Assembleia da República, António de Almeida Santos.

BUDAPEST TREATY ON THE INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE DEPOSIT OF MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PURPOSES OF PATENT PROCEDURE.

Done at Budapest on April 28,1977, and amended on September 26,1980

Introductory provisions

Article 1 Establishment of a Union

The States party to this Treaty (hereinafter called «the Contracting States») constitute a Union for the international recognition of the deposit of microorganisms for the purpose of patent procedure.

Article 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this Treaty and the Regulations:

t) References to a «patent» shall.be construed as references to patents for inventions, inventors' certificates, utility certificates, utility models, patents or certificates of addition, inventors' certificates of addition, and utility certificates of addition;

it) «Deposit of a microorganism» means, according to the context in which these words appear, the following acts effected in accordance with this Treaty and the Regulations: the transmittal of a microorganism to an international depositary authority, which receives and accepts it, or the storage of such a microorganism by the international depositary authority, or both the said transmittal and the said storage;

Hi) «Patent procedure» means any administrative or judicial procedure relating to a patent application or a patent;

iv) «Publication for the purposes of patent procedure» means the official publication, or the official laying open for public inspection, of a patent application or a patent;

v) «Intergovernmental industrial property organ-ization» means an organization that has filed a declaration under article 9,1;

vi) «Industrial property office» means an authority of a Contracting State or an intergovernmental industrial property organization competent for the grant of patents;

vii) «Depositary institution» means an institution which provides for the receipt, acceptance and storage of microorganisms and the furnishing of samples thereof;

viii) «International depositary authority» means a depositary institution which has acquired the status of international depositary authority as provided in article 7;

ix) «Depositor» means the natural person or legal entity transmitting a microorganism to an international depositary authority, which receives and accepts it, and any successor in title of the said natural person or legal entity;

x) «Union» means the Union referred to in article 1;

xi) «Assembly» means the Assembly referred to in article 10;

xii) «Organization» means the World Intellectual Property Organization;

xiii) «International Bureau» means the International Bureau of the Organization and, as long as it subsists, the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI);

xiv) «Director General» means the Director General of the Organization;

xv) «Regulations» means the Regulations referred to in article 12.

CHAPTER I Substantive provisions

Article 3

Recognition and effect of the deposit of microorganisms

1 —a) Contracting States which allow or require the deposit of microorganisms for the purposes, of patent procedure shall recognize, for such purposes, the deposit of a microorganism with any international depositary authority. Such recognition shall include the recognition of the fact and date of the deposit as indicated by the international depositary authority as well as the recognition of the fact that what is furnished as a sample is a sample of the deposited microorganism.

b) Any Contracting State may require a copy of the receipt of the deposit referred to in subparagraph a), issued by the international depositary authority.

2 — As far as matters regulated in this Treaty and the Regulations are concerned, no Contracting State may require compliance with requirements different from or additional to those wich are provided in this Treaty and the Regulations.

Article 4 New deposit

1 — a) Where the international depositary authority cannot furnish samples of the deposited microorganism for any reason, in particular:

i) Where such microorganism is no longer viable, or

ii) Where the furnishing of samples would require that they be sent abroad and the sending or the receipt of the samples abroad is prevented by export or import restrictions;