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• Area: Approximately 1 220 000 km2
• Population: 50 million
• Capital: Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative)
• Currency: Rand = 100 cents
• GDP: $ 527.5 billion (2010)
• Domain name extension: .za
• Languages: 11 official languages: English, Afrikaans, Ndebele, North Sotho, Sesotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu • Exports: Gold; other minerals and metals; foods; chemicals; manufactured goods
• Imports: Machinery; transport equipment; chemicals; textiles; scientific instruments; petroleum products
• Berne Convention
• Budapest Treaty
• Paris Convention
• Patent Cooperation Treaty
• UPOV Convention for New Varieties of Plants
• WIPO Convention
• WTO/TRIPS
Madrid Agreement: No
Paris Union: Yes
Goods and services
Collective marks
Certification marks
No provision for defensive marks or series marks
The International Classification of Goods and Services (Nice Classification) is applied.
Particulars of Applicant (name, address and nationality)
Simply signed Power of Attorney
Representation of the mark List of goods and / or services Certified copy of the priority document
The trade mark is registered 10 years from the filing date
Paris Convention: Yes
PCT: Yes (national phase deadline is 31 months from the priority date)
ARIPO: No
OAPI: No
Specification, abstract and drawings if non-PCT, in any language (required on day of filing)
Power of Attorney, simply signed (can be filed within 6 months)
Statement on the Use of Indigenous Biological Resources, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge or Use, simply signed (can be filed within 6 months)
Assignment of Invention, simply signed (only if an article 4.17 declaration was not filed during the international phase)
English translation of specification, claims and abstract (only if the application not originally in English), including any Article 19 or 34 amendments (can be filed within 3 months)
Certified priority document (only if not lodged in the international phase)