At the time of proceeding to the signing of the act concluded on this day, the undersigned plenipotentiaries are agreed upon the following: AD ARTICLE 1. The words "Propriete industrielle" (industrial property) shall be taken in their broadest acceptation; they extend to all production in the domain of agricultural industries (wines, grains, fruits, animals, etc.), and extractives (minerals, mineral waters, etc.). AD ARTICLE 2. (a) Under the name of patents are comprised the different kinds of industrial patents admitted by the laws of the contracting countries, such as patents of importation, patents of improvement, etc., for the processes as well as for the products. (b) It is understood that the provision in Article 2 which dispenses the members of the Union from the obligation of domicile and of establishment has an interpretable character and must, consequently, be applied to all the rights granted by the Convention of March 20, 1883, before the entrance into force of the present act. (c) It is understood that the provisions of Article 2 do not infringe the laws of each of the contracting countries, in regard to the procedure followed before the courts and the competency of those courts, as well as the election of domicile or the declaration of the selection of an attorney required by the laws on patents, working models, marks, etc. AD ARTICLE 4. It is understood that, when an industrial model or design shall have been filed in a country by virtue of the right of priority based on the filing of a working model, the term of priority shall be only that which Article 4 has fixed for industrial models and designs. AD ARTICLE 6. It is understood that the provision of the first paragraph of Article 6 does not exclude the right to require of the depositor a certificate of regular registration in the country of origin, issued by competent authority. It is understood that the use of badges, insignia or public decorations which shall not have been authorized by competent powers, or the use of official signs and stamps of control and of guaranty adopted by a unionist country, may be considered as contrary to public order in the sense of No. 3 of Article 6. However, marks, which contain, with the authorization of competent powers, the reproduction of badges, decorations or public insignia, shall not be considered as contrary to public order. It is understood that a mark shall not be considered as contrary to public order for the sole reason that it is not in conformity with some provision of laws on marks, except in the case where such provision itself concerns public order. The present Final Protocol, which shall be ratified at the same time as the act concluded on this day, shall be considered as forming an integral part of this act, and shall be of like force, value and duration. In witness whereof; the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present protocol. Done at Washington, in a single copy, June 2, 1911. HANIEL VON HAIMHAUSEN. H. ROBOLSKI. ALBERT OSTERRIETH. L. BARON DE HENGELMULLER. DR. PAUL CHEVALIER BECK DE MANNAGETTA ET ELEMÉR POMPÉRY. J. BRUNET. GEORGES DE RO. CAPITAINE. R. DE LIMA E SILVA. J. CLAN. JUAN RIAÑO Y GAYANGOS. J. FLOREZ POSADA. EDWARD BRUCE MOORE. MELVILLE CHURCH. CHARLES H. DUELL. FREDERICK P. FISH. ROBT. H. PARKINSO EMILIO C. JOUBERT. PIERRE LEFÈVRE-PONTALIS MICHEL PELLETIER. G. BRETON. GEORGES MAILLARD. A. MITCHELL INNES. A. E. BATEMAN. W. TEMPLE FRANKS. LAZZARO NEGROTTO CAMBIASO. EMILIO VENEZIAN. G. B. CECCATO. K. MATSUI. MORIO NAKAMATSU. J. DE LAS FUENTES. SNYDER VAN WISSENKERKE. J. F. H. M. DA FRANCA, VTE D'ALTE. P. RITTER. W. KRAFT. HENRI MARTIN. E. DE PERETTI DE LA ROCCA LUDWIG AUBERT. ANTONIO MARTIN RIVERO. NATURALIZATION LAW OF SIAM. May 18, 1911. By the King's Most Excellent Majesty. Whereas it is advisable to make definite rules for the granting of naturalization as one of the various ways in which Siamese nationality may be acquired; It is hereby enacted as follows: CHAPTER I. Short Title. Execution. 1. This law shall be cited as the "Naturalisation Law 130." 2. The Minister of Foreign Affairs shall have charge and control of the execution of this law. He shall have power to frame regulations for such execution, more particularly to prescribe the forms of any applications or declarations and the amount of fees to be paid. These regulations, on being sanctioned by His Majesty and published in the "Government Gazette," shall be deemed to be part of this law. CHAPTER II. Conditions Required for Naturalisation. 3. Any alien who complies with the conditions required by Articles 6 and 7 may apply to be naturalised as a Siamese subject. 4. The grant or refusal of naturalisation lies entirely in the discretion of the government. 5. The application shall be made in writing and shall be directed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. 6. No naturalisation may be granted unless (1.) The applicant be of full age, both according to the Siamese law and the law of his nationality; and (2.) The applicant be residing in Siam at the time of his application; and (3.) The applicant has resided in Siam for not less than five years; and (4.) The applicant be a person of good character and in possession of sufficient means of support. 7. The five years' residence in Siam is not required in the following cases: (1.) If the applicant has rendered services of an exceptional nature to Siamese Government; or (2.) If the applicant was originally a Siamese subject who has been naturalised abroad with the sanction of the Siamese Government and who now desires to resume his Siamese nationality; (3.) If the applicant is a child of an alien who was naturalised as a Siamese subject, and if, at the time of the naturalisation of such alien, he was of full age, both according to the Siamese law and according to the law of his nationality. 8. Naturalisation may be granted only on the royal sanction being first obtained. 9. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, on receiving the royal sanction and after the applicant has taken the oath of allegiance, shall issue a notification ("prakat ") to the effect that the applicant has been naturalised as a Siamese subject. CHAPTER III.-Effects of Naturalisation. 11. From the date of publication of the notification in the "Government Gazette" the naturalised person shall acquire all the rights and shall be subject to all obligations attendant upon the status of a Siamese subject. 12. The wife or wives of a naturalised person become as of right Siamese subjects. 13. Every child of a naturalised person, who is not of full age at the time of the naturalisation, becomes as of right a Siamese subject. Provided that such child may decline Siamese nationality and resume |