Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property in the United States

Article 24

(1) Any country may declare in its instrument of ratification or accession,
or may inform the Director General by written notification any time
thereafter, that this Convention shall be applicable to all or part of
those territories, designated in the declaration or notification, for the
external relations of which it is responsible.

(2) Any country which has made such a declaration or given such a
notification may, at any time, notify the Director General that this
Convention shall cease to be applicable to all or part of such territories.

(3) (a) Any declaration made under paragraph (1) shall take effect on the
same date as the ratification or accession in the instrument of which it
was included, and any notification given under such paragraph shall take
effect three months after its notification by the Director General.

(b) Any notification given under paragraph (2) shall take effect twelve
months after its receipt by the Director General.

Article 25

(1) Any country party to this Convention undertakes to adopt, in accordance
with its constitution, the measures necessary to ensure the application of
this Convention.

(2) It is understood that, at the time a country deposits its instrument of
ratification or accession, it will be in a position under its domestic law
to give effect to the provisions of this Convention.

Article 26

(1) This Convention shall remain in force without limitation as to time.

(2) Any country may denounce this Act by notification addressed to the
Director General. Such denunciation shall constitute also denunciation of
all earlier Acts and shall affect only the country making it, the
Convention remaining in full force and effect as regards the other
countries of the Union.

(3) Denunciation shall take effect one year after the day on which the
Director General has received the notification.

(4) The right of denunciation provided by this Article shall not be
exercised by any country before the expiration of five years from the date
upon which it becomes a member of the Union.

Article 27

(1) The present Act shall, as regards the relations between the countries
to which it applies, and to the extent that it applies, replace the
Convention of Paris of March 20, 1883, and the subsequent Acts of revision.

(2) (a) As regards the countries to which the present Act does not apply,
or does not apply in its entirety, but to which the Lisbon Act of October
31, 1958, applies, the latter shall remain in force in its entirety or to
the extent that the present Act does not replace it by virtue of paragraph
(1).

(b) Similarly, as regards the countries to which neither the present Act,
nor portions thereof, nor the Lisbon Act applies, the London Act of June 2,
1934 shall remain in force in its entirety or to the extent that the
present Act does not replace it by virtue of paragraph (1).

(c) Similarly, as regards the countries to which neither the present Act,
nor portions thereof, nor the Lisbon Act, nor the London Act applies, the
Hague Act of November 6, 1925, shall remain in force in its entirety or to
the extent that the present Act does not replace it by virtue of paragraph
(1).

(3) Countries outside the Union which become party to this Act shall apply
it with respect to any country of the Union not party to this Act or which,
although party to this Act, has made a declaration pursuant to Article 20
(1) (b) (i). Such countries recognize that the said country of the Union
may apply, in its relations with them, the provisions of the most recent
Act to which it is party.

Article 28

(1) Any dispute between two or more countries of the Union concerning the
interpretation or application of this Convention, not settled by
negotiation, may, by any one of the countries concerned, be brought before
the International Court of Justice by application in conformity with the
Statute of the Court, unless the countries concerned agree on some other
method of settlement. The country bringing the dispute before the Court
shall inform the International Bureau; the International Bureau shall bring
the matter to the attention of the other countries of the Union.

(2) Each country may, at the time it signs this Act or deposits its
instrument of ratification or accession, declare that it does not consider
itself bound by the provisions of paragraph (1). With regard to any dispute
between such country and any other country of the Union, the provisions of
paragraph (1) shall not apply.

(3) Any country having made a declaration in accordance with the provisions
of paragraph (2) may, at any time, withdraw its declaration by notification
addressed to the Director General.

Article 29

(1) (a) This Act shall be signed in a single copy in the French language
and shall be deposited with the Government of Sweden.

(b) Official texts shall be established by the Director General, after
consultation with the interested Governments, in the English, German,
Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish languages, and such other
languages as the Assembly may designate.

(c) In case of differences of opinion on the interpretation of the various
texts, the French text shall prevail.

(2) This Act shall remain open for signature at Stockholm until January 13,
1968.

(3) The Director General shall transmit two copies, certified by the
Government of Sweden, of the signed text of this Act to the Governments of
all countries of the Union and, on request, to the Government of any other
country.

(4) The Director General shall register this Act with the Secretariat of
the United Nations.

(5) The Director General shall notify the Governments of all countries of
the Union of signatures, deposits of instruments of ratification or
accession and any declarations included in such instruments or made
pursuant to Article 20 (1) (c), entry into force of any provisions of this
Act, notifications of denunciation, and notifications pursuant to Article
24.

Article 30

(1) Until the first Director General assumes office, references in this Act
to the International Bureau of the Organization or to the Director General
shall be deemed to be references to the Bureau of the Union or its
Director, respectively.

(2) Countries of the Union not bound by Articles 13 to 17 may, until five
years after the entry into force of the Convention establishing the
Organization, exercise, if they so desire, the rights provided under
Articles 13 to 17 of this Act as if they were bound by those Articles. Any
country desiring to exercise such rights shall give written notification to
that effect to the Director General; such notification shall be effective
from the date of its receipt. Such countries shall be deemed to be members
of the Assembly until the expiration of the said period.

(3) As long as all the countries of the Union have not become Members of
the Organization, the International Bureau of the Organization shall also
function as the Bureau of the Union, and the Director General as the
Director of the said Bureau.

(4) Once all the countries of the Union have become Members of the
Organization, the rights, obligations, and property, of the Bureau of the
Union shall devolve on the International Bureau of the Organization.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto, have
signed this Act.