Location Paris Signatories 12 Depositary United States | Effective January 12, 1961 Parties 27 | |
Signed September 21, 1960 (1960-09-21) | ||
The NATO Agreement for the mutual safeguarding of secrecy of inventions relating to defence and for which applications for patents have been made was signed in Paris on September 21, 1960. It entered into force on January 12, 1961 following deposit of the instruments of ratification by the first two countries, namely the United States and Norway.
Countries
Iceland, a founder of NATO with no standing army, did not participate in the convention. The following countries are parties the agreement:
References
NATO Agreement on Safeguarding Defence-Related Inventions Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA