Pakistan

Pakistan Profile

Pakistan, officially known as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a sovereign state in South Asia and is located at the crossroads of strategically important regions of South Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia. Pakistan has 1,046 kilometers (650 miles) of coastline on the Arabian Sea. It is bordered by the Gulf of Oman to the south, India to the east, Afghanistan to the west and north, Iran to the southwest and China to the northeast. It is separated from Tajikistan by the narrow Wakhan Corridor in northern Afghanistan and shares a maritime border with Oman.

Pakistan Intellectual Property Legal System

• Patents Ordinance
• "Patent Regulations"
• "trademark law"
• Trade Marks Ordinance
• "Designs Regulations"
• "Regulations on Registered Integrated Circuit Layout Designs"
• "Copyright Ordinance"
• "Copyright Regulations"

International Organization/Agreement

• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• "Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization"
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights