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• The Partnerships and Trade Names Law, Cap 116;
• The Legal Protection of Industrial Signs and Samples Law 4(I)/2002 as
amended; and
• The Intellectual Property Law Number 59/76, as amended by Law Number
63/77 and Law Number 18/93, Law Number 54(I)/99, Law Number
12(I)/2001, Law Number 128(I)/2002, Law Number 128(I)/2004, Law
Number 123(I)/2006 and Law Number 181(I)/2007.
These are generally modeled on their English counterparts and are tailored to
promote and provide sufficient protection to proprietors.
International Conventions
Cyprus is a party to a number of international conventions providing reciprocal
arrangements to protect intellectual property rights.
These conventions, and the laws ratifying them, are as follows:
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Lisbon Act and
Stockholm Act) (Law Number 63/65 and Law Number 66/83 respectively);
• Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (Law
Number 36/84);
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Paris Act
1971) (Law Number 86/79);
• Universal Copyright Convention (Law Number 151/90);
• Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol;
• Geneva Trade Marks Law Treaty 1994 (Law Number 12(III)/96);
• Patent Cooperation Treaty, 1970 (Law Number 27(III)/97);
• European Patent Convention (Law Number 26(III)/97);
• The Geneva Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms
against Unauthorized Duplications of Their Phonograms (Law Number
21(III)/92);
• The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
(Law Number 16(III)/95);
• The European Convention relating to Questions on Copyright Law and
Neighboring Rights in the Framework of Transfrontier Broadcasting by
Satellite (Law Number 29(III)/95);
• The Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers and Producers of
Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations of 26 October 1996 (Law
Number 14(III)/99);
• The Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks of
14 April 1891, revised at Stockholm 14 July 1967 and as amended 28
September 1979 (Law Number 3(III)/2003); and
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