On 4 September 2023, Rwanda deposited its instrument of accession to the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure - Budapest Notification No. 360.
For patent applications involving a microorganism, it is extremely difficult to provide an enabling disclosure in the patent description to enable third parties to carry out the invention. This is why for inventions involving microorganisms, a deposit of microorganisms is required to satisfy this requirement. Read more