Guide to Doing Business
in St. Maarten

St. Maarten 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 purposes of the registration of trademarks;
4. The World Trade Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO);
5. Strasbourg Convention on the unification of certain points of substantive law on patents for invention;
6. Strasbourg Agreement concerning the international classification of patents;
7. Patent Cooperation Treaty;
8. European Patent Convention;
9. Budapest Treaty on the international recognition of the deposit of micro-organisms for the purposes of patent procedure;
10. Madrid Protocol concerning the international registration of trademarks;
11. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of International Property Rights (TRIP’s);
12. The Singapore Treaty on the law of Trademarks;
13. Hague Convention, Abolishing the Requirement of Legislation for Foreign Public Documents; and
14. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.