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Standard St.3: Handbook On Industrial Property Information and Documentation
Standard St.3: Handbook On Industrial Property Information and Documentation
page: 3.3.1
STANDARD ST.3
RECOMMENDED STANDARD ON TWO-LETTER CODES FOR THE REPRESENTATION
OF STATES, OTHER ENTITIES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Revision adopted by the SCIT Standards and Documentation Working Group
at its eighth session on March 22, 2007
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 Code contained in
International Standard ISO 3166-1:2006, Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries and their Subdivisions
Part 1: Country Codes, published in January 2007 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It is also
aligned with the announcements published in ISO 31661 Newsletters.
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 3166.
7.
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 2.
9.
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, 1978.
10.
The letter combinations AA, QM to QY, XA to XM, XO to XZ and ZZ are available for individual use and for
provisional codes.
[Annexes follow]
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ANNEX 1, SECTION 1
LIST OF STATES, OTHER ENTITIES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS,
IN ALPHABETIC SEQUENCE OF THEIR SHORT NAMES,
AND THEIR CORRESPONDING CODES
AFGHANISTAN ................................................
AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
(1)
ORGANIZATION (OAPI) ............................
AFRICAN REGIONAL INTELLECTUAL
(1)
PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (ARIPO) ....
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
(2)
PROPERTY (BOIP) ....................................
BENIN ...............................................................
BERMUDA ........................................................
BHUTAN ...........................................................
BOLIVIA ............................................................
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ........................
BOTSWANA .....................................................
BOUVET ISLAND .............................................
BRAZIL .............................................................
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM ..................................
BULGARIA ........................................................
BURKINA FASO ...............................................
BURUNDI ..........................................................
CAMBODIA .......................................................
CAMEROON .....................................................
CANADA ...........................................................
CAPE VERDE ...................................................
CAYMAN ISLANDS ..........................................
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC .....................
CHAD ................................................................
CHILE ...............................................................
CHINA ...............................................................
COMMUNITY PLANT VARIETY OFFICE
(EUROPEAN COMMUNITY) (CPVO) ............
COLOMBIA .......................................................
COMOROS .......................................................
CONGO (see Congo, below; Democratic
Republic of the Congo)
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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
BA
BW
BV
BR
BN
BG
BF
BI
KH
CM
CA
CV
KY
CF
TD
CL
CN
QZ
CO
KM
CONGO ............................................................
COOK ISLANDS ...............................................
COSTA RICA ....................................................
CTE DIVOIRE ...............................................
CROATIA ..........................................................
CUBA ................................................................
CYPRUS ...........................................................
CZECH REPUBLIC ..........................................
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC
OF KOREA ....................................................
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
THE CONGO .................................................
DENMARK ........................................................
DJIBOUTI .........................................................
DOMINICA ........................................................
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ..................................
CG
CK
CR
CI
HR
CU
CY
CZ
KP
CD
DK
DJ
DM
DO
ECUADOR ........................................................
EGYPT .............................................................
EL SALVADOR .................................................
EQUATORIAL GUINEA ...................................
ERITREA ..........................................................
ESTONIA ..........................................................
ETHIOPIA .........................................................
EURASIAN PATENT ORGANIZATION
(1)
(EAPO) .......................................................
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY TRADE MARK
OFFICE (See Office for Harmonization
in the Internal Market)
(1)
EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE (EPO) .........
EC
EG
SV
GQ
ER
EE
ET
EP
FK
FO
FJ
FI
FR
GABON .............................................................
GAMBIA ............................................................
GEORGIA .........................................................
(3)
GERMANY .....................................................
GHANA .............................................................
GIBRALTAR .....................................................
GREECE ..........................................................
GREENLAND ...................................................
GRENADA ........................................................
GUATEMALA ...................................................
GUERNSEY ......................................................
GUINEA ............................................................
GUINEABISSAU ............................................
GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL (see Patent
Office of the Cooperation Council for
the Arab States of the Gulf)
GUYANA ..........................................................
GA
GM
GE
DE
GH
GI
GR
GL
GD
GT
GG
GN
GW
EA
GY
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Annex A, Section 1
page 2
HAITI ................................................................. HT
HOLY SEE ........................................................ VA
HONDURAS ... .................................................. HN
HONG KONG (See The Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region of the Peoples
Republic of China)
HUNGARY ........................................................ HU
ICELAND ..........................................................
INDIA ................................................................
INDONESIA ......................................................
INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE
WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
(4)
ORGANIZATION (WIPO) ...........................
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF ........................
IRAQ .................................................................
IRELAND ..........................................................
ISLE OF MAN ....................................................
ISRAEL .............................................................
ITALY ................................................................
IS
IN
ID
IB, WO
IR
IQ
IE
IM
IL
IT
JAMAICA .......................................................... JM
JAPAN .............................................................. JP
JERSEY ............................................................. JE
JORDAN ........................................................... JO
KAZAKHSTAN .................................................. KZ
KENYA .............................................................. KE
KIRIBATI ........................................................... KI
KOREA (see Democratic Peoples
Republic of Korea; Republic of Korea)
KUWAIT ............................................................ KW
KYRGYZSTAN ................................................. KG
LAO PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC ...
LATVIA ..............................................................
LEBANON .........................................................
LESOTHO .........................................................
LIBERIA ............................................................
LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA ...........................
LIECHTENSTEIN .............................................
LITHUANIA .......................................................
LUXEMBOURG ................................................
LA
LV
LB
LS
LR
LY
LI
LT
LU
MACAO .............................................................
MACEDONIA (see The former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia)
MADAGASCAR ................................................
MALAWI ............................................................
MALAYSIA ........................................................
MALDIVES ........................................................
MALI ..................................................................
MALTA ..............................................................
MAURITANIA ....................................................
MAURITIUS ......................................................
MEXICO ............................................................
MOLDOVA (see Republic of Moldova)
MONACO ..........................................................
MONGOLIA .......................................................
MONTENEGRO.................................................
MONTSERRAT .................................................
MOROCCO .......................................................
MOZAMBIQUE .................................................
MO
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MG
MW
MY
MV
ML
MT
MR
MU
MX
MC
MN
ME
MS
MA
MZ
MYANMAR .......................................................
MM
NAMIBIA ...........................................................
NAURU .............................................................
NEPAL ..............................................................
NETHERLANDS ...............................................
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ............................
NEW ZEALAND ...............................................
NICARAGUA ....................................................
NIGER ..............................................................
NIGERIA ...........................................................
NORDIC PATENT INSTITUTE (NPI)................
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS ...................
NORWAY .........................................................
NA
NR
NP
NL
AN
NZ
NI
NE
NG
XN
MP
NO
EM
OM
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 ......................................................
PK
PW
PA
PG
PY
GC
PE
PH
PL
PT
QATAR .............................................................
QA
KR
MD
RO
RU
RW
SH
KN
LC
VC
WS
SM
ST
SA
SN
RS
SC
SL
SG
SK
SI
SB
SO
ZA
GS
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Annex A, Section 1
page 3
SPAIN ...............................................................
SRI LANKA .......................................................
SUDAN .............................................................
SURINAME .......................................................
SWAZILAND .....................................................
SWEDEN ..........................................................
SWITZERLAND ................................................
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC ..............................
ES
LK
SD
SR
SZ
SE
CH
SY
UGANDA ..........................................................
UKRAINE ..........................................................
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ..............................
UNITED KINGDOM ..........................................
UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA ................
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .....................
URUGUAY ........................................................
UZBEKISTAN ...................................................
UG
UA
AE
GB
TZ
US
UY
UZ
TW
TJ
VANUATU ........................................................
VATICAN CITY STATE (See Holy See)
VENEZUELA ....................................................
VIET NAM .........................................................
VIRGIN ISLANDS, BRITISH ............................
VU
TH
VE
VN
VG
MK
(5)
HK
TL
TG
TO
TT
TN
TR
TM
TC
TV
EH
WO, IB
YEMEN .............................................................
YE
ZAMBIA ............................................................
ZIMBABWE ......................................................
ZM
ZW
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ANNEX A, SECTION 2
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
AN
AO
AP
AR
AT
AU
AW
AZ
BA
BB
BD
BE
BF
BG
BH
BI
BJ
BM
BN
BO
BR
BS
BT
BV
BW
BX
Andorra
United Arab Emirates
Afghanistan
Antigua and Barbuda
Anguilla
Albania
Armenia
Netherlands Antilles
Angola
African Regional Intellectual Property
(1)
Organization (ARIPO)
Argentina
Austria
Australia
Aruba
Azerbaijan
BY
BZ
CA
CD
CF
CG
CH
CI
CK
CL
CM
CN
CO
CR
CU
CV
CY
CZ
Canada
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Central African Republic
Congo
Switzerland
Cte dIvoire
Cook Islands
Chile
Cameroon
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Cape Verde
Cyprus
Czech Republic
DE
Germany
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(3)
DJ
DK
DM
DO
DZ
Djibouti
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Algeria
EA
EC
EE
EG
EH
EM
EP
ER
ES
ET
FI
FJ
FK
FO
FR
Finland
Fiji
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Faroe Islands
France
GA
GB
GC
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
GD
GE
GG
GH
GI
GL
GM
GN
GQ
GR
GS
GT
GW
GY
HK
HN
HR
HT
HU
IB
ID
IE
IL
IM
IN
(1)
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Annex A, Section 2
page 2
IQ
IR
IS
IT
Iraq
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iceland
Italy
JE
JM
JO
JP
Jersey
Jamaica
Jordan
Japan
KE
KG
KH
KI
KM
KN
KP
KR
KW
KY
KZ
Kenya
Kyrgyzstan
Cambodia
Kiribati
Comoros
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
Republic of Korea
Kuwait
Cayman Islands
Kazakhstan
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
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
NA
NE
NG
NI
NL
NO
NP
NR
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Nicaragua
Netherlands
Norway
Nepal
Nauru
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NZ
New Zealand
OA
OM
PA
PE
PG
PH
PK
PL
PT
PW
PY
Panama
Peru
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Pakistan
Poland
Portugal
Palau
Paraguay
QA
QZ
Qatar
Community Plant Variety Office
(European Community) (CPVO)
RO
RS
RU
RW
Romania
Serbia
Russian Federation
Rwanda
SA
SB
SC
SD
SE
SG
SH
SI
SK
SL
SM
SN
SO
SR
ST
SV
SY
SZ
Saudi Arabia
Solomon Islands
Seychelles
Sudan
Sweden
Singapore
Saint Helena
Slovenia
Slovakia
Sierra Leone
San Marino
Senegal
Somalia
Suriname
Sao Tome and Principe
El Salvador
Syrian Arab Republic
Swaziland
TC
TD
TG
TH
TJ
TL
TM
TN
TO
TR
TT
TV
TW
TZ
UA
UG
US
UY
Ukraine
Uganda
United States of America
Uruguay
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Annex A, Section 2
page 3
UZ
Uzbekistan
WS
Samoa
VA
VC
VE
VG
VN
VU
Holy See
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Venezuela
Virgin Islands (British)
Viet Nam
Vanuatu
XN
YE
Yemen
ZA
ZM
ZW
South Africa
Zambia
Zimbabwe
WO
[Annex B follows]
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ANNEX B, SECTION 1
LIST OF STATES IN RESPECT OF WHICH CODES HAVE CHANGED
Code used
before
1.1.1978
New Code
used from
1.1.1978
Albania
Algeria
Austria
AN
AG
OE
AL
DZ
AT
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Benin
Bhutan
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burma (see Myanmar)
BB
BA
BD
DA
BH
BT
UV
BH
BD
BB
BJ
BT
BW
(6)
HV/BF
Cambodia
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Congo
CD
KA
ZR
TS
CE
RC
CF
KH
CM
CF
TD
CL
CN
CG
Country
Democratic Kampuchea
(see Cambodia)
Democratic Peoples
Republic of Korea
Democratic Republic
of the Congo
Dominican Republic
KN
CB
KP
ZR/CD
DR
DO
East Timor
(see TimorLeste)
Egypt
El Salvador
Ethiopia
ET
SL
EA
EG
SV
ET
Finland
SF
FI
Gambia
Germany
Guatemala
Guinea
GE
DT
GU
GI
GM
DE
GT
GN
Haiti
Holy See
Honduras
HI
CV
HO
HT
VA
HN
Ireland
EI
IE
(7)
Code used
before
1.1.1978
New Code
used from
1.1.1978
Japan
JA
JP
Kuwait
KU
KW
Liechtenstein
FL
LI
Madagascar
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mongolia
Myanmar
MD
MJ
ML
MT
MS
MO
BU
MG
ML
MT
MR
MU
MN
(8)
MM
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
NA
NI
WN
NI
NE
NG
Oman
MU
OM
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Poland
PM
PP
PG
PO
PA
PG
PY
PL
Republic of Korea
Romania
KS
RU
KR
RO
Sierra Leone
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Syrian Arab Republic
WL
CL
SW
SR
SL
LK
SE
SY
TimorLeste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
TP
TO
TI
TD
TL
TG
TO
TT
United Republic of
Tanzania
TA
TZ
ZB
ZM
Country
(9)
[Section 2 follows]
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ANNEX B, SECTION 2
LIST OF STATES OR ORGANIZATIONS THAT EXISTED ON JANUARY 1, 1978,
BUT THAT NO LONGER EXIST
Czechoslovakia
Democratic Yemen
German Democratic Republic
International Patent Institute
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro
CS
(10)
SY/YD
(11)
DL/DD
IB
SU
(12)
YU
(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 1984..
Code CD adopted in 1997.
Code MM adopted in 1989.
Code TL adopted on May 20, 2002.
Code SY used before 1.1.1978.
Code DL used before 1.1.1978.
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.
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