Guide to Doing Business
in Aruba

International treaties & conventions

Aruba is a party to the following treaties and conventions with respect to intellectual property:

  1. Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property;
  2. Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works;
  3. Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purpose of Registration of Marks (eighth edition);
  4. WIPO Convention;
  5. Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks;
  6. Patent Cooperation Treaty;
  7. Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Patents;
  8. Trademark Law Treaty;
  9. Strasbourg Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention;
  10. Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purpose of Patent Procedure;
  11. Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs; and
  12. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.