. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONIP/N/1/CRI/1
20 December 2000
(00-5562)
Council for Trade-Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property RightsOriginal:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS NOTIFIED UNDER
ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT
COSTA RICA
Through communications from its Permanent Mission, dated 23 November and
12 December 2000, Costa Rica notified its main intellectual property laws and regulations in
accordance with Article 63.2 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights (TRIPS) as follows:
- Law No. 6683 and Amendments Thereto1
Law on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights
- Law No. 6867 and Amendments Thereto2
Law on Patents, Industrial Designs and Utility Models
- Law No. 7978 of 6 January 20003
Law on Trademarks and other Distinctive Signs
- Law No. 8020 of 6 September 20003
Amendment of Articles 94 and 95 of the Law on Trademarks and other Distinctive Signs,
No. 7978, and Permanent Funding for the Publishers Editorial Costa Rica and Editorial del
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
- Law No. 7961 of 17 December 19994
Law on the Protection of Topographies of Integrated Circuits
- Law No. 7975 of 4 January 20005
Law on Undisclosed Information
- Law No. 7130 and Amendments Thereto6
Code of Civil Procedure
                                                     
1 See document IP/N/1/CRI/C/1.
2 See document IP/N/1/CRI/I/1.
3 See document IP/N/1/CRI/I/2.
4 See document IP/N/1/CRI/L/1.
5 See document IP/N/1/CRI/U/1.
6 See document IP/N/1/CRI/E/1.IP/N/1/CRI/1
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- Law No. 7594 of 10 April 19967
Code of Criminal Procedure
- Law No. 8039 of 12 October 20008
Law on Procedures for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
- Law No. 7979 of 6 January 20009
Amendments to the Law on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights, No. 6683 and Amendments
Thereto, to the Law on Patents, Industrial Designs and Utility Models, No. 6867 and
Amendments Thereto, and to the Code of Civil Procedure, Law No. 7130 and Amendments
Thereto
- Law No. 7982 of 14 January 200010
Approval of the Protocol to the Central American Convention for the Protection of Industrial
Property (Trademarks, Trade Names and Advertising Slogans or Signs)
- Law No. 7967 of 22 December 199911
Approval of the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) (1996)
- Law No. 7968 of 22 December 199911
Approval of the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) (1996)
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7 See document IP/N/1/CRI/E/2.
8 See document IP/N/1/CRI/E/3.
9 See document IP/N/1/CRI/C/1/Add.1 - IP/N /1/CRI/I/1/Add.1 – IP/N/1/CRI/E/1/Add.1.
10 See document IP/N/1/CRI/I/3.
11 See document IP/N/1/CRI/C/2.