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Items 9.1 & 9.1(1)

Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Paris 1883

International Convention further revising the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 20 March 1883, Stockholm 1968

The 1883 Paris

Convention

for the Protection of

Industrial Property ("the Convention"), as revised, seeks to strengthen cooperation among Member States in the field The text of the industrial property.

Stockholm on 14 July 1967 and

incorporating earlier amendments, is at Annex A.

of

of protection

Convention, as

at revised

The Convention

2.

Union")

for the

protection

establishes

of

â Union

("the Paris

a

range

of

industrial

property:

utility patents,

trademarks,

service

marks;

source

provisions categories:

common rules.

(Article competition the of

of unfair

models, industrial designs,

appellations of origin, and for the suppression

trade names,

indications

of

national

1).

fall Convention

treatment, right

The substantive

into three main

of

and priority

3.

to

Under the Convention each Union country is obliged

grant the same level of protection to. nationals of other Union countries and to other persons who are domiciled or

have

real and effective

establishments in

industrial

commercial

a Union country

persons, the Convention

the

(Articles

2

provides

and 3).

of a right

of territory

such For

utility

models,

priority

industrial

in

the case

of patents,

designs

and

trademarks

(Article 4).

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