Any resident or national of a Contracting State
may file an international application.
(2)
The Assembly may decide to allow the residents
and the nationals of any country party to the
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial
Property which is not party to this Treaty to
file international applications.
(3)
The concepts of residence and nationality, and
the application of those concepts in cases where
there are several applicants or where the
applicants are not the same for all the
designated States, are defined in the
Regulations.