NATO Agreement on Safeguarding Defence-Related Inventions

The NATO Agreement for the mutual safeguarding of secrecy of inventions relating to defence and for which applications for patents have been made was signed in Paris on September 21, 1960. It entered into force on January 12, 1961, following deposit of the instruments of ratification by the first two countries, namely the United States and Norway.

Countries
Iceland, a founder of NATO with no standing army, did not participate in the convention. The following countries are parties the agreement: