TUNISA
December 04, 2017
As of December 1, 2017 patents will be validated in Tunisia and thus regarded as national Tunisian patents. Tunisia becomes the third non-EU member state, following Morocco and Moldova, where this is possible. Companies and inventors from all around the world will be able to easily extend the scope of their patent protection to Tunisia.
The validation agreement with Tunisia brings to 43 the number of countries where an invention can be protected through the single European examination and grant procedure (covering a market of some 700 million inhabitants).