OBI operates as a receiving office for applications for:

• European Patents to protect an invention in any of the 38 Signatories to the Munich Convention (European Patent Convention)

  You can also proceed to electronic filing of a European Patent Application directly to the European Patent Office (EPO) in the following electronic address:
  https://www.epo.org/applying/online-services.html

• International Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) deposits whereby one can request that a patent be issued for any of the Signatories by depositing one application only.
  For electronic PCT filing, you can visit the electronic address:
  http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/forms/request/ed_request.pdf

• Protection of industrial designs and models at international level (Hague Agreement) and at Community level –EUIPO- (European Union Intellectual Property Office), Regulation 6/2002 of the December 12^thCouncil for the community industrial designs and models.