The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that New amendments to the Regulations of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) will take effect from July 1, 2009. The amendments are available at the WIPO website http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/texts/index.htm

Together with the amendments to the PCT Regulations certain PCT forms will come into effect. For more information, visit http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/forms/2009/index.html