[4] The Patent Cooperation Treaty also applies on Aruba, and the Bureau of Intellectual property acts as a receiving office for international (PCT) applications.
[5] However, as the Kingdom of the Netherlands has "closed its national route", it is -also in Aruba- not possible to designate the Aruban patent at the end of the international phase.
Aruba also uses the IPC system; the Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification applies.
Although patents are granted without a substantial examination, the court is competent to decide issues regarding validity,[1] in addition to (amongst others) disputes regarding infringement, ownership and licenses.
One decision (ECLI:NL:OGEAA:2011:BQ6331, of the Court of First Instance of Aruba) regarding an Aruban patent is published at the case law database of the Dutch judiciary.