OOPS...... At 03:44 PM 6/14/2002 -0400, when I wrote: >----------------------there are many bilateral treaties and >international conventions ......Bern, Rome, WIPO, TRIPS, and the *EURO* >agreements, ----------------- I was referring to the EPC (European Patent Convention) which now include all countries in the European Community together with other non-Community countries such as Switzerland. I don't know where that EURO bit came from.... just another brain fart, I guess. D