This renunciation shall be addressed to the Government of the Swiss Confederation. It shall effect only the country giving such notice, the Convention remaining operative as to the other contracting countries. ARTICLE 18. The present Act shall be ratified, and the ratifications filed in Washington, at the latest, April 1, 1913. It shall be put into execution, among the countries which shall have ratified it, one month after the expiration of this period of time. This Act, with its Final Protocol, shall replace, in the relations of the countries which shall have ratified it: the Convention of Paris, March 20, 1883; the Final Protocol annexed to that Act; the Protocol of Madrid, April 15, 1891, relating to the dotation of the international Bureau, and the additional Act of Brussels, December 14, 1900. However, the Acts cited shall remain binding on the countries which shall not have ratified the present Act. ARTICLE 19. The present Act shall be signed in a single copy, which shall be filed in the archives of the Government of the United States. A certified copy shall be sent by the latter to each of the unionist Gov ernments. In Witness Whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Act. Done at Washington, in a single copy, the second day of June, 1911. For Germany: HANIEL VON HAIMHAUSEN. ALBERT OSTERRIETH. For Austria and for Hungary: L. BARON DE HENGELMULLER, Ambassadeur d'Autriche-Hongrie. For Austria: DR. PAUL CHEVALIER BECK DE MANNAGETTA ET LERCHENAU, Chef de Section et Président de l'Office I. R. des Brevets d'invention.. For Hungary: ELEMÉR DE POMPÉRY, Conseiller ministériel à l'Office Royal hongrois Brevets d'invention. For Belgium: For Brazil: J. BRUNET. GEORGES DE RO. CAPITAINE. R. DE LIMA E SILVA. 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 "Propriété 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.). The original of the final protocol is in the French language. The translation printed here is that attached to the final protocol as proclaimed in Treaty Series No. 579. 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 improvements, 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 ARTICE 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 LERCHENAU. ELEMÉR POMPÉRY. J. BRUNET. GEORGES DE RO. CAPITAINE. R. DE LIMA E SILVA. J. CLAN. JUAN RIAÑO Y GAYANGOS. J. FLOREZ POSADA. MELVILLE CHURCH. PIERRE LEFÈVRE-PONTALIS. MICHEL PELLETIER. GEORGES MAILLARD. A. MITCHELL INNES. 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. ALBERT EHRENSVÄRD. P. RITTER. W. KRAFT. HENRI MARTIN. E. DE PERETTI DE LA ROCCA. LUDWIG AUBERT. ANTONIO MARTIN RIVERO. 1911. CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITAIN, RUSSIA, AND JAPAN FOR THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF FUR SEALS. Signed at Washington July 7, 1911; ratification advised by the Senate July 24, 1911; ratified by the President November 24, 1911; ratified by Great Britain August 25, 1911; ratified by Japan November 6, 1911; ratified by Russia October 22/November 4, 1911; ratifications exchanged at Washington December 12, 19111; proclaimed December 14, 1911. (Treaty Series, No. 564; 37 Statutes at Large, 1542.) ARTICLES. I. Prohibition relative to pelagic sealing. II. Proh bition relative to use of III. Importation of fur seal skins. V. Protection of sea otters. VI. Legislation for enforcement of treaty. VII. Maintenance of guard or patrol. VIII. Cooperation for the prevention of pelagic sealing. IX. Pelagic sealing defined. X. Distribution of seals taken by the United States. XI. Payment by the United States. XIII. Distribution of seal skins by XIV. Distribution of seal skins by XV. Treaty of February 7, 1911, XVI. Effect; duration. The United States of America, His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, His Majesty_the Emperor of Japan, and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, being desirous of adopting effective means for the preservation and protection of the fur seals which frequent the waters of the North Pacific Ocean, have resolved to conclude a Convention for the purpose, and to that end have named as their Plenipotentiaries; The President of the United States of America, the Honorable Charles Nagel, Secretary of Commerce and Labor of the United States, and the Honorable Chandler P. Anderson, Counselor of the Department of State of the United States: His Britannic Majesty, the Right Honorable James Bryce, of the Order of Merit, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington, and Joseph Pope, Esquire, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, Under Secretary of State of Canada for External Affairs; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Baron Yasuva Uchida, Jusammi, Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington; and the Honorable Hitoshi Dauké, Shoshii, Third Class of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, Director of the Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Agriculture and Commerce; His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Honorable Pierre Botkine, Chamberlain of His Majesty's Court, Envoy Extraordi The protocol of deposit of ratifications of December 12, 1911, is .printed in British and Foreign State Papers, civ, 180-181. |