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1 PCT Applicant s Guide International Phase Annex K Page 1 K K Annex K includes a list of short names and two-letter codes accepted for use in indicating States, other entities and intergovernmental organizations (and their Offices) in documents relating to international applications under the PCT. The list is as set out in WIPO Standard ST.3 (see List of WIPO Standards, Recommendations and Guidelines on the web site at:

2 Page 2 PCT Applicant s Guide International Phase Annex K STANDARD ST.3 RECOMMENDED STANDARD ON TWO-LETTER CODES FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF STATES, OTHER ENTITIES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Revision adopted by the Committee on WIPO Standards (CWS) by correspondence on February 21, 2015 INTRODUCTION 1. This Recommended Standard provides two-letter alphabetic codes which, for the purpose of improving the access to industrial property information, represent, in particular, the names of States, other entities and intergovernmental organizations the legislation of which provides for the protection of industrial property rights or which organizations are acting in the framework of a treaty in the field of industrial property. 2. The designation of States or other entities in this Recommended Standard does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever concerning the legal status of any State or territory, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers. 3. This Recommended Standard is aligned with the universally recognized ISO Alpha-2 Codes listed in International Standard ISO , Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries and their Subdivisions Part 1: Country Codes, which are available on the Online Browsing Platform of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). RECOMMENDED STANDARD CODE 4. This Recommended Standard is intended to be implemented for any use by industrial property offices requiring the identification of States, other entities and intergovernmental organizations, in coded form. 5. The recommended codes are contained in Annex A in two sections, organized as follows: (i) Section 1 presents a list of States, other entities and intergovernmental organizations, in alphabetic sequence of their short names and their corresponding codes; (ii) Section 2 presents the codes referred to in (i) in alphabetic order and the corresponding (short) names of States, other entities and intergovernmental organizations. MAINTENANCE 6. ISO has entrusted a Maintenance Agency with the management of International Standard ISO WIPO has been granted associate-member status in the Maintenance Agency and is therefore closely associated with its work. The International Bureau updates this Recommended Standard at intervals following the decisions of the Maintenance Agency and of the respective WIPO body with regard to the inclusion of new two-letter alphabetic codes or the amending of existing two-letter alphabetic codes. IMPLEMENTATION AND GUIDELINES FOR USERS 8. To assist users of documents relating to industrial property titles and/or applications therefor, Annex B, Section 1, to this Recommended Standard lists those States for which the code in force prior to January 1, 1978, was subsequently replaced by a new code. A list of States or organizations, with their respective codes, that ceased to exist is given in Annex B, Section The codes contained in Annex A to this Recommended Standard should be used in all documents relating to industrial property titles and/or applications therefor, even when referring to documents for which a different code existed before January 1, The letter combinations AA, QM to QY, XA to XM, XO to XT, XX to XZ and ZZ are available for individual use and for provisional codes. [Annexes follow]

3 PCT Applicant s Guide International Phase Annex K Page 3 ANNEX A, SECTION 1 LIST OF STATES, OTHER ENTITIES, AND THEIR CODES LIST OF STATES, OTHER ENTITIES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, IN ALPHABETIC SEQUENCE OF THEIR SHORT NAMES, AND THEIR CORRESPONDING CODES AFGHANISTAN... AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (OAPI) (1)... AFRICAN REGIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (ARIPO) (1)... ALBANIA... ALGERIA... ANDORRA... ANGOLA... ANGUILLA... ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA... ARGENTINA... ARMENIA... ARUBA... AUSTRALIA... AUSTRIA... AZERBAIJAN... BAHAMAS... BAHRAIN... BANGLADESH... BARBADOS... BELARUS... BELGIUM... BELIZE... BENELUX OFFICE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (BOIP) (2)... BENIN... BERMUDA... BHUTAN... BOLIVIA, PLURINATIONAL STATE OF... BONAIRE, SINT EUSTATIUS AND SABA... BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA... BOTSWANA... BOUVET ISLAND... BRAZIL... BRUNEI DARUSSALAM... BULGARIA... BURKINA FASO... BURUNDI... AF OA AP AL DZ AD AO AI AG AR AM AW AU AT AZ BS BH BD BB BY BE BZ BX BJ BM BT BO BQ BA BW BV BR BN BG BF BI CONGO (see Congo, below; Democratic Republic of the Congo) CONGO... COOK ISLANDS... COSTA RICA... CÔTE D IVOIRE... CROATIA... CUBA... CURAÇAO... CYPRUS... CZECH REPUBLIC... DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE S REPUBLIC OF KOREA... DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO... DENMARK... DJIBOUTI... DOMINICA... DOMINICAN REPUBLIC... ECUADOR... EGYPT... EL SALVADOR... EQUATORIAL GUINEA... ERITREA... ESTONIA... ETHIOPIA... EURASIAN PATENT ORGANIZATION (EAPO) (1)... EUROPEAN UNION TRADE MARK AND DESIGNS OFFICE (See Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market) EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE (EPO) (1)... FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS)... FAROE ISLANDS... FIJI... FINLAND... FRANCE... CG CK CR CI HR CU CW CY CZ KP CD DK DJ DM DO EC EG SV GQ ER EE ET EA EP FK FO FJ FI FR CAMBODIA... CAMEROON... CANADA... CABO VERDE... CAYMAN ISLANDS... CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC... CHAD... CHILE... CHINA... COMMUNITY PLANT VARIETY OFFICE (EUROPEAN UNION) (CPVO)... COLOMBIA... COMOROS... KH CM CA CV KY CF TD CL CN QZ CO KM GABON... GAMBIA... GEORGIA... GERMANY (3)... GHANA... GIBRALTAR... GREECE... GREENLAND... GRENADA... GUATEMALA... GUERNSEY... GUINEA... GUINEA BISSAU... GA GM GE DE GH GI GR GL GD GT GG GN GW

4 Page 4 PCT Applicant s Guide International Phase Annex K Annex A, Section 1 page 2 GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL (see Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf) GUYANA... HAITI... HOLY SEE... HONDURAS... HONG KONG (See The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People s Republic of China) HUNGARY... ICELAND... INDIA... INDONESIA... INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO) (4)... INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW VARIETIES OF PLANTS (UPOV)... IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF... IRAQ... IRELAND... ISLE OF MAN... ISRAEL... ITALY... JAMAICA... JAPAN... JERSEY... JORDAN... KAZAKHSTAN... KENYA... KIRIBATI... KOREA (see Democratic People s Republic of Korea; Republic of Korea) KUWAIT... KYRGYZSTAN... LAO PEOPLE S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC... LATVIA... LEBANON... LESOTHO... LIBERIA... LIBYA... LIECHTENSTEIN... LITHUANIA... LUXEMBOURG... MACAO... MACEDONIA (see The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) MADAGASCAR... MALAWI... MALAYSIA... MALDIVES... MALI... MALTA... MAURITANIA... GY HT VA HN HU IS IN ID IB, WO XU IR IQ IE IM IL IT JM JP JE JO KZ KE KI KW KG LA LV LB LS LR LY LI LT LU MO MG MW MY MV ML MT MR MAURITIUS... MEXICO... MOLDOVA (see Republic of Moldova) MONACO... MONGOLIA... MONTENEGRO... MONTSERRAT... MOROCCO... MOZAMBIQUE... MYANMAR... NAMIBIA... NAURU... NEPAL... NETHERLANDS... NEW ZEALAND... NICARAGUA... NIGER... NIGERIA... NORDIC PATENT INSTITUTE (NPI)... NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS... NORWAY... OFFICE FOR HARMONIZATION IN THE INTERNAL MARKET (TRADE MARKS AND DESIGNS) (OHIM)... OMAN... PAKISTAN... PALAU... PANAMA... PAPUA NEW GUINEA... PARAGUAY... PATENT OFFICE OF THE COOPERATION COUNCIL FOR THE ARAB STATES OF THE GULF (GCC)... PERU... PHILIPPINES... POLAND... PORTUGAL... QATAR... REPUBLIC OF KOREA... REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA... ROMANIA... RUSSIAN FEDERATION... RWANDA... SAINT HELENA, ASCENSION AND TRISTAN DA CUNHA... SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS... SAINT LUCIA... SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES... SAMOA... SAN MARINO... SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE... SAUDI ARABIA... SENEGAL... SERBIA... SEYCHELLES... MU MX MC MN ME MS MA MZ MM NA NR NP NL NZ NI NE NG XN MP NO EM OM PK PW PA PG PY GC PE PH PL PT QA KR MD RO RU RW SH KN LC VC WS SM ST SA SN RS SC

5 PCT Applicant s Guide International Phase Annex K Page 5 Annex A, Section 1 page 3 SIERRA LEONE... SINGAPORE... SINT MAARTEN (Dutch part)... SLOVAKIA... SLOVENIA... SOLOMON ISLANDS... SOMALIA... SOUTH AFRICA... SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS... SOUTH SUDAN... SPAIN... SRI LANKA... SUDAN... SURINAME... SWAZILAND... SWEDEN... SWITZERLAND... SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC... TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA... TAJIKISTAN... TANZANIA (see United Republic of Tanzania) THAILAND... THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA... THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF THE PEOPLE S REPUBLIC OF CHINA... TIMOR LESTE... TOGO... TONGA... TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO... SL SG SX SK SI SB SO ZA GS SS ES LK SD SR SZ SE CH SY TW TJ TH MK HK TL TG TO TT TUNISIA... TURKEY... TURKMENISTAN... TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS... TUVALU... UGANDA... UKRAINE... UNITED ARAB EMIRATES... UNITED KINGDOM... UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA... UNITED STATES OF AMERICA... URUGUAY... UZBEKISTAN... VANUATU... VATICAN CITY STATE (See Holy See) VENEZUELA, BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF... VIET NAM... VIRGIN ISLANDS, BRITISH... WESTERN SAHARA (5)... WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO) (INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF) (4)... YEMEN... ZAMBIA... ZIMBABWE... TN TR TM TC TV UG UA AE GB TZ US UY UZ VU VE VN VG EH WO, IB YE ZM ZW [Section 2 follows]

6 Page 6 PCT Applicant s Guide International Phase Annex K ANNEX A, SECTION 2 LIST OF CODES AND NAMES OF STATES AND OTHER ENTITIES LIST OF CODES, IN ALPHABETIC SEQUENCE, AND THE CORRESPONDING (SHORT) NAMES OF STATES, OTHER ENTITIES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AD AE AF AG AI AL AM AO AP AR AT AU AW AZ BA BB BD BE BF BG BH BI BJ BM BN BO BQ BR BS BT BV BW BX BY BZ CA CD CF CG CH CI CK CL CM CN CO CR CU CV CW CY CZ Andorra United Arab Emirates Afghanistan Antigua and Barbuda Anguilla Albania Armenia Angola African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) (1) Argentina Austria Australia Aruba Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Barbados Bangladesh Belgium Burkina Faso Bulgaria Bahrain Burundi Benin Bermuda Brunei Darussalam Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba Brazil Bahamas Bhutan Bouvet Island Botswana Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) (2) Belarus Belize Canada Democratic Republic of the Congo Central African Republic Congo Switzerland Côte d Ivoire Cook Islands Chile Cameroon China Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Cabo Verde Curaçao Cyprus Czech Republic DE Germany (3) DJ Djibouti DK Denmark DM Dominica DO Dominican Republic DZ Algeria EA Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) (1) EC Ecuador EE Estonia EG Egypt EH Western Sahara (5) EM Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trademarks and Designs) (OHIM) EP European Patent Office (EPO) (1) ER Eritrea ES Spain ET Ethiopia FI FJ FK FO FR GA GB GC GD GE GG GH GI GL GM GN GQ GR GS GT GW GY HK HN HR HT HU IB ID IE IL IM Finland Fiji Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Faroe Islands France Gabon United Kingdom Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) Grenada Georgia Guernsey Ghana Gibraltar Greenland Gambia Guinea Equatorial Guinea Greece South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Guatemala Guinea-Bissau Guyana The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People s Republic of China Honduras Croatia Haiti Hungary International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (4) Indonesia Ireland Israel Isle of Man

7 PCT Applicant s Guide International Phase Annex K Page 7 Annex A, Section 2 page 2 IN IQ IR IS IT JE JM JO JP KE KG KH KI KM KN KP KR KW KY KZ LA LB LC LI LK LR LS LT LU LV LY MA MC MD ME MG MK ML MM MN MO MP MR MS MT MU MV MW MX MY MZ NA NE NG NI NL NO India Iraq Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iceland Italy Jersey Jamaica Jordan Japan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Cambodia Kiribati Comoros Saint Kitts and Nevis Democratic People s Republic of Korea Republic of Korea Kuwait Cayman Islands Kazakhstan Lao People s Democratic Republic Lebanon Saint Lucia Liechtenstein Sri Lanka Liberia Lesotho Lithuania Luxembourg Latvia Libya Morocco Monaco Republic of Moldova Montenegro Madagascar The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Mali Myanmar Mongolia Macao Northern Mariana Islands Mauritania Montserrat Malta Mauritius Maldives Malawi Mexico Malaysia Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Nicaragua Netherlands Norway NP NR NZ OA OM PA PE PG PH PK PL PT PW PY QA QZ RO RS RU RW SA SB SC SD SE SG SH SI SK SL SM SN SO SR SS ST SV SX SY SZ TC TD TG TH TJ TL TM TN TO TR TT TV TW TZ Nepal Nauru New Zealand African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) (1) Oman Panama Peru Papua New Guinea Philippines Pakistan Poland Portugal Palau Paraguay Qatar Community Plant Variety Office (European Union) (CPVO) Romania Serbia Russian Federation Rwanda Saudi Arabia Solomon Islands Seychelles Sudan Sweden Singapore Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Slovenia Slovakia Sierra Leone San Marino Senegal Somalia Suriname South Sudan Sao Tome and Principe El Salvador Sint Maarten (Dutch part) Syrian Arab Republic Swaziland Turks and Caicos Islands Chad Togo Thailand Tajikistan Timor Leste Turkmenistan Tunisia Tonga Turkey Trinidad and Tobago Tuvalu Taiwan, Province of China United Republic of Tanzania

8 Page 8 PCT Applicant s Guide International Phase Annex K Annex A, Section 2 page 3 UA UG US UY UZ VA VC VE VG VN VU Ukraine Uganda United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Holy See Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Virgin Islands (British) Viet Nam Vanuatu WO WS XN XU YE ZA ZM ZW World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (International Bureau of) (4) Samoa Nordic Patent Institute (NPI) International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) Yemen South Africa Zambia Zimbabwe [Annex B follows]

9 PCT Applicant s Guide International Phase Annex K Page 9 ANNEX B, SECTION 1 STATES FOR WHICH CODES HAVE CHANGED LIST OF STATES IN RESPECT OF WHICH CODES HAVE CHANGED Country Code used before New Code used from Country Code used before New Code used from Albania AN AL Algeria AG DZ Austria OE AT Bahrain BB BH Bangladesh BA BD Barbados BD BB Benin DA BJ Bhutan BH BT Botswana BT BW Burkina Faso UV HV/BF (6) Burma (see Myanmar) Cambodia CD KH Cameroon KA CM Central African Republic ZR CF Chad TS TD Chile CE CL China RC CN Congo CF CG Democratic Kampuchea (see Cambodia) Democratic People s KN KP Republic of Korea Democratic Republic CB ZR/CD (7) of the Congo Dominican Republic DR DO East Timor (see Timor Leste) Egypt ET EG El Salvador SL SV Ethiopia EA ET Finland SF FI Gambia GE GM Germany DT DE Guatemala GU GT Guinea GI GN Haiti HI HT Holy See CV VA Honduras HO HN Japan JA JP Kuwait KU KW Liechtenstein FL LI Madagascar MD MG Mali MJ ML Malta ML MT Mauritania MT MR Mauritius MS MU Mongolia MO MN Myanmar BU MM (8) Nicaragua NA NI Niger NI NE Nigeria WN NG Oman MU OM Panama PM PA Papua New Guinea PP PG Paraguay PG PY Poland PO PL Republic of Korea KS KR Romania RU RO Sierra Leone WL SL Sri Lanka CL LK Sweden SW SE Syrian Arab Republic SR SY Timor Leste TP TL (9) Togo TO TG Tonga TI TO Trinidad and Tobago TD TT United Republic of Tanzania TA TZ Zaire (see Democratic Republic of the Congo) Zambia ZB ZM Ireland EI IE [Section 2 follows]

10 Page 10 PCT Applicant s Guide International Phase Annex K ANNEX B, SECTION 2 STATES OR ORGANIZATIONS THAT NO LONGER EXIST LIST OF STATES OR ORGANIZATIONS THAT EXISTED ON JANUARY 1, 1978, BUT THAT NO LONGER EXIST Czechoslovakia CS Democratic Yemen SY/YD (10) German Democratic Republic DL/DD (11) International Patent Institute IB Soviet Union SU Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro YU (12) [End of Annex B and of Standard] (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) Intergovernmental organizations (regional patent offices) acting for certain Contracting States under the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty). In case of the European Patent Office, it also acts as International Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority under the PCT. The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) (former Benelux Trademark and Designs Offices) have replaced the national Offices of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands with regard to actions relating to marks and industrial designs. In the electronic database of the International Register of Marks, the International Bureau of WIPO uses the following additional codes, not part of the active codes of Standard ST.3: DD to designate Germany without the territory that, prior to October 3, 1990, constituted the Federal Republic of Germany; DT to designate Germany without the territory that, prior to October 3, 1990, constituted the German Democratic Republic. The code WO is used in relation to the international publication under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) of international applications filed with any PCT receiving Office, as well as in the publication of international deposits of industrial designs under the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs. In this regard, reference is made to INID code (33) given in WIPO Standards ST.9 and ST.80. The code WO is also the appropriate code to be used with respect to international registrations of marks under the Madrid Agreement and the Madrid Protocol Concerning the International Registration of Marks. The code IB is used in relation to the receipt of international applications under the PCT filed with the International Bureau of WIPO in its capacity as a PCT receiving Office. Provisional name. Code BF adopted in Code CD adopted in Code MM adopted in Code TL adopted on May 20, Code SY used before Code DL used before Subsequent to the country name change of Yugoslavia to Serbia and Montenegro, that took effect on February 4, 2003, and to the decision by the ISO 3166/MA to use the new country name and new two-letter code CS (to replace YU ), which was announced on July 23, 2003, the SCIT Standards and Documentation Working Group agreed, at its fifth session, in November 11, 2004, to recommend that the two-letter code YU continue to be used for Serbia and Montenegro in the industrial property field because code CS raised certain problems due to its former use to represent Czechoslovakia until 1993.