2. INTERNATIONAL TREATIES 

The Paris Convention for the Protection  of Industrial Property (1883) https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/288514

AGREEMENT ON TRADE RELATED ASPECTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY  RIGHTS(TRIPS] 1995

The Patent Cooperation Treaty1970 https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/488122 

The Patent Law Treaty 2000 https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/288996 

The Budapest Treaty on the international recognition of the deposit of microorganisms for the purposes of Patent procedure, 1977 https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/283784 

The Strasbourg Agreement concerning the international Patent Classification 1971 https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/291858 

The CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 1992