CROATIA PARTY TO INTERNATIONAL PATENT TREATY

( Editorial: --> 3484 ) GENEVA, March 30 (Hina) - Croatia handed over a document on the ratification of the Patent Cooperation Treaty to the World Organisation for Intellectual Property in Geneva on Monday, by which it has become a party to the agreement. The Treaty is one of the most important international documents in the field of intellectual property. The document on ratification was handed over by the director of the Croatian Government Institute for Intellectual Property, Nikola Kopcic, to the director of the World Organisation for Intellectual Property, Kamil Idris. In the framework of this organisation, Croatia has taken on the role of 1998 regional co-ordinator for central European countries and the Baltic states. (hina) mm mrb/rm 301854 MET mar 98