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GENEVA – FEBRUARY 2010 – No.1 2-25 IP LITIGATION COSTSSPECIAL EDITION 26 WIPO’S NEW TOP MANAGEMENT New Parties to WIPO Administered Treaties in 2009 During 2009, 68 instruments of accession or ratification of treaties administered by WIPO were deposited with the Director General of WIPO. The treaties and new adherents are as follows: In the field of industrial property Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) (1970) – Chile, Peru and Thailand (3), bringing the total number of States to 142. The Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks (Madrid Agreement (1891) and Madrid Protocol (1989)) – Egypt, Liberia and Sudan (3) adhered to the Madrid Protocol, bringing the total number of States/IGOs to 81. Trademark Law Treaty (TLT) (1994) – Morocco, Nicaragua and Peru (3), bringing the total number of States to 45. Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks (2006) – Estonia, France, Liechtenstein, Mali, Netherlands (The Netherlands will become bound by the Treaty three months after the deposit of the instruments of ratification of Belgium and Luxembourg), Poland, Russian Federation and Spain (8), bringing the total number of States to 17. Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification (1971) – Serbia and Ukraine (2), bringing the total number of States to 61. Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs (1968) – Argentina and Ukraine (2), bringing the total number of States to 51. Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks (1973) – Serbia and Ukraine (2), bringing the total number of States to 27. Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs – Germany, Poland and Serbia (3) adhered to the 1999 Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement, bringing the total number of States/IGOs to 37. Patent Law Treaty (PLT) (2000) –