Lao People’s Democratic Republic

International Treaties

National IP Legislation

• PCT
  Accession date: 14 March 2006;
  Entry into force: 14 June 2006
• Paris Convention
  +Stockholm (1967)
  Accession: July 1998;
  into force Oct. 1998.
• WIPO Convention
  Accession: October 1994,
  into force: January 1995
• WTO
  Observer

• IP Law
  Adopted by National Assembly: 24 December 2007
  Promulgated: 14 January 2008
  into force: 14 April 2008
  (English text version available soon)
• Regulation on the implementation of the Decree on Patent, Petty Patent and Industrial Designs
  Signed into force: February 2003
• Regulation on Registration of Trademarks
  Signed into force: March 2002
• Decree on Patents, Petty Patents and Industrial Designs
  Signed into force: 2002
• Decree on Trademarks
  Signed into force: 1995