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Bulgaria has a century-long tradition in protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Bulgaria is a member of:
- The World Intellectual Property Organization
- The International Union for the protection of Industrial Property (the Paris Union)
- The International Union for the protection of literary and artistic works (the Bern Union)
- The World Trade Organization.
- The European Patent Organization.
Bulgaria is a party to:
- The European Patent Convention,
- The Agreement of Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - TRIP‘s
- The Paris Convention
- The Madrid Agreement for the repression of false or deceptive indications of source on goods
- The Nairobi Treaty on the protection of the Olympic symbol
- The Patent Cooperation Treaty - PCT
- The Budapest Treaty of the international recognition of the deposit of microorganisms for the purposes of the patent procedure
- The Madrid Agreement concerning international registration of marks
- The Lisbon Agreement for the protection of appellations of origin and their international registration
- The Hague Agreement concerning the international deposit of industrial designs
- The Bern Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works
- The Rome Convention for the protection of performers, producers of phonograms against unauthorized duplication of their programs
The following are in standard use in Bulgaria:
- The International Patent Classification
- The International Classification of Goods and Services for the purposes of the registration of marks
- The International Classification of the figurative elements of marks
- The International Classification of industrial designs.
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