INFORMATION FROM THE EPO
Notices of the President of the EPO
Notice of the President of the European Patent Office dated 1 June 1995 concerning recognised microorganism depositary institutions
1. The following depositary insitutions have acquired the status of international depositary authorities under Article 7 of the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure.
The kinds of microorganisms accepted by these institutions together with other technical information are specified in Industrial Property and Copyright 1995, 233 and 235.
China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC)
China Committee for Culture Collection of Microorganisms
P.O. Box 2714
Beijing, 100080
The People's Republic of China
China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC)
Wuhan University
Wuhan, 430072
The People's Republic of China
Acquisition of the status: 1 July 1995
2. As a result of the European Patent Organisation having filed on 26 August 1980 the declaration specified in Article 9 of the Budapest Treaty (see OJ EPO 1980, 380), the EPO recognises, for the purposes of Rules 28 and 28a EPC, the deposit of microorganisms with the aforementioned institutions in their capacity as international depositary authorities. Such recognition includes recognition of the fact and date of the depostit as indicated by these authorities as well as recognition of the fact that what is furnished as a sample is a sample of the deposited mico-ororganism.