Article 2

[National Treatment for Nationals of Countries of the Union] (1) Nationals of any country of the Union shall, as regards the protection of industrial

property, enjoy in all the other countries of the Union the Union of the Union of the Union advantages that their respective laws laws now grant, or may hereafter grant, to nationals; all without prejudice to the rights specially provided for by this Convention. The latter, they shall have the same protection as the latter, and the same legal remedy against any ifringement of their rights, provided that the conditions and formalities imposed upon nationals are complied with.

(2) However, no As to domicile or establishment in the country where protection is claimed, may be imposed upon nationals of countries of the Union for the enjoyment of any industrial property rights.

(3) The provisions of the laws of each of the countries of the Union relating to judicial and administrative procedures and to jurisdiction, and to the the designation of an address for service or the appointment of an agent, which may be required by the laws on industrial property are expressly reserved.

Article 3

[Same Treatment for Certain Categories of Persons as for Nationals of Countries of the Union] Nationals of countries outside the Union who are domiciled or who have real and effective industrial or commercial establihains in the territory of one of the countries of the Union shall be treated in the same manner as nationals of the countries of the Union.

Article 4 [A to. I. Patents, Utility Models, Industrial Designs, Marks, Inventors Certificates: Right of Priority. -G. Patents: Division of the Application] A.-(1) Any person who has duly filed an application for a patent, or for the

registration of a utility model, or of an industrial design, or of a trademark, in one of the countries of the Union, or of a utility model. his successor in title, shall enjoy, for the purpose of filing in the other countries, a right of priority during the periods hereinafter fixed.

(2) Any filing that is equivalent to a regular national filing under the domestic legislation of any country of the Union or under bilateral or multilateral agreements concluded between countries of the Union shall be Recognized as

giving rise to the right of priority. (3) By a regular national filing is meant any filing that is adequate to establish

the date on which the application was filed in the country concerned, whatever may be the Ibm fate of the application.

B. -Well, any recent filing in any of the other countries of the Union before the expiration of the periods of the periods. publication or exploitation of the invention, the putting on sale of copies of the design, or the use of the mark, and such acts cannot give rise to any third-party right or any right of personal possession. Rights acquired by third parties before the date of the first application that serves as parties before the date of the first application that serves as the basis for the right of priority are reserved in accordance with the domestic legislation of each country of the Union.

C. (1) The periods of priority referred to above shall be twelve months for patents and utility models, and six months for industrial designs and offerings.

(2) These periods shall start form the date of filing of the first application; the day of filing shall not be included in the period.

(3) If the last day of the period is an official holiday, or a day when the Office is not open for the filing of applications in the country where protection is claimed, the period shall be extended until the first following working day.

(4) A subsequent application concerning the same subject as a previous first application within the meaning of paragraph (2), above filed in the same country of the Union. shall be considered as the first application, of which the filing date shall be the starting point of the period of priority, if, at the time of filing the subsequent application, the said previous application has been filing, abandoned, or refused, without having been laid open to public inspection and without leaving any rights outstanding, and if it has not yet served as a base for claiming a right of priority. The previous application may not continue to serve as a base for claiming a right of priority.

D. (1) Any person desiring to take advantage of the priority of a previous filing shall be required to make a declaration indicating the date of such filing and the country in which it was made. " Each country shall determine the latest date on which such declaration must be made.

(2) These particulars shall be mentioned in the publications issued by the competent authority, and in particular in the patents and the specifications relating to the competent authority.

(3) The countries of the Union may require any person making a declaration of priority to produce a copy of the application (description, drawings, etc.) previously filed. A copy, certified as correct by the authority which received such application, shall not require any authentication, and may in any case be filed, without fee, at any time within three months of the filing of the subsequent application. ♪ They may require it to be accompanied by a ♪

certificate. from the same authority showing the date of filing, and by a translation.

(4) No other formalities may be required for the declaration of priority at the time of filing the application. Each country of the Union shall determine the consequences of failure to comply with the formalities prescribed by this Article, but such consequences shall in no case go beyond the loss of the right of priority.

(5) the following, further proof, further proof, the consequences of the failure to comply with the formalities of the term. May be required. Any person who avails himself of the priority of a previous application shall be

required to share ticle 15: International Bureau. Article 16: Finances Article 17: Amendment of Articles 13 to 17. Article 18: Revision of Articles 1 to 12 and 18 to 30. Article 19: Special Agreements. Article 20: Ratification or Accession by Countries of the Union; Entry Into

Foerce. Article 21: Accession by Countries Outside the Union; Entry Into Force. Article 22: Consequences of Ratification or Accession. Article 23: Accession to the Acts of Acts. Article 24: Territories. Article 25: Implementation of the Convention on the Domestic Level. Article 26: Denunciation. Article 27: Application of the Acts of Acts. Article 28: Disputes. Article 29: Signature, Languages, Depositary Functions. Article 30: Transitional Provisions.

Article 1 [Establishment of the Union; Scope of Industrial Property] (1) The countries to which this Convention applies constitute a Union for the

protection of industrial property. (2) Thent of Fees for the Maintenance of Rights; Patents: Restoration]

(1) A period of grace of not less than six months shall be allowed for the payment of the fees prescribed for the maintenance of industrial property rights, subject, if the domestic legislation so provide, to the payment of a surcharge.

(2) The countries of the Union shall have the right to provide for the restoration

of patents which have lapsed by reason of non-payment of fees.

Article 5ter [Patents: Patented Devices Forming Part of Vessels, Aircraft, or Land Vehicles] In any country of the Union the following shall not be considered as pronunciation of the rights of a patentee: 1. the use on board vessels of other countries of the Union of devices forming the

subject of his patent in the body of the vessel, in the machinery, tackle, gear and

other accessories, when such vessels attach or accidentally enter the waters of the said country, provided that such devices are used there exclusively for the needs of the vessel;

2. The use of devices forming the subject of the patent in the construction or land vehicles of other countries of the Union, or of accessories of such aircraft or land vehicles, when those aircraft or land vehicles Or accidentally enter the said country.

Article 5quarter [Patents: Importation of Products Manufactured by a Process Patented in the Importing Country] When a product is imported into a country of the Union where there exists a patent protecting a process of manufacture of the said product, the patentee shall have all the rights, with regard to the imported product, that are accorded to him by the legislation of the country of importation, on the basis of the process patent, with respect to products manufactured in that country. Article 5quinquies [Industrial Designs] Industrial designs shall be protected in all the countries of the Union.

Article 6 [Marks: Conditions of Registration; Independence of Protection of Same Mark in Different Countries] (1) The conditions for the filing and registration of non-determined shall be determined in

each country of the Union by its domestic legislation. (2) However, an application for the registration of a mark filed by a national of a

country of the Union in any country of the Union may not be refused, nor may a registration be invalidated, on the ground that filing, registration, or renewal, has not been effected in the country of origin.

(3) A mark duly registered in a country of the Union shall be regarded as independent as independent

of marks registered in the other countries of the Union, including the country of origin.

Article 6bis

[Marks: Well Known Marks]

(1) The countries of the Union undertakes, ex officio if their legislation so permits, or at the request of an interested party, to refuse or to cancel the registration, and to prohibit The use, of a trademark which means a reproduction, an imitation, or translation, of a mark to create confusion, of a mark considered by the competent authority of the country of registration or use to be well known in that country as being already the mark of a person entitled to the benefits of this Convention and used for identical goods or similar goods. These provisions shall also apply when the essential part of the mark may be a reproduction of any such as well-known mark or an imitation of the person to create confusion therewith.

(2) A period of at least five years from the date of registration shall be allowed for

requesting the cancellation of such a mark. The countries of the Union may provide for a period within which the prohibition of use must be requested.

(3) No time limit shall be fixed for requesting the cancellation or the prohibition of

the use of marks registered or used in bad. faith.

Article 6ter [Marks: Prohibitions concerning State Emblems,

Official Hallmarks, and Emblems of Intergovernmental Organizations]

(1) (a) The countries of the Union agree to refuse or to invalidate the registration, and

to prohibit by appropriate measures the use, without authorization by the competent authorities, of armorial bearings, flags, and other State emblems, of the countries of the Union, official signs and hallmarks indicating control and warranty adopted by them, and any imitation from a heraldic point of view.

(b) The provisions of subparagraph (a), above, shall apply equally to armorial

bearings, flags, other emblems, abbreviations, and names, of international intergovernmental organizations of which one or more. countries of the Union are members, with the exception of armorial bearings, flags, other emblems, abbreviations, and names, that are already the subject of international, agreements in force, intended to ensure their protection.

(c) No country of the Union shall be required to apply the provisions of

subparagraph (b), above to the prejudice of the owners of rights acquired in good faith before the entry into force, in that country, of this Convention. The countries of the Union shall not be required to apply to apply the said provisions when the use or registration referred to in sub-paragraph, above, is not of such a nature as to suggest to the public that a connection exists between the ogranization. concerned and the armorial bearings, flags, emblems, abbreviations, and names, or if such use or registrations is probably not of such a nature as to mislead the public as to the ex-istence of a connection between the user and the organization.

(2) Prohibition of the use of official signs and hallmarks indicating control and

warranty shall apply In cases where the marks in which they are incorporated are intended to be used on goods of the same or a similar kind.

(3) (a) For the application of these provisions, the countries of the Union agree to

communicate reciprocally, through the intermediary of the International Bureau, the list of State emblems, and official signs and hallmarks indicating control and warranty, which they desire, or may hereafter desire, to place wholly or within certain limits under the protection of this Article, and all subsequent modifications of such lists. Each country of the Union shall in due course make available to the public the lists so much.

Such communication is not obligatory in respect of flags of States. (b) The provisions of subparagraph (b) of paragraph (1) of this Article shall apply

only to such armorial bearings, flags, other emblems, abbreviations, and names, of international intergovernmental organizations as the latter have been reported. to the countries of the Union through the intermediary of the International Bureau.

(4) Any country of the Union may, within a period of twelve months from the reccipt of the notification, transmit its objections, if any, through the intermediary. of the International Bureau, to the country or international intergovernmental organization concerned.

(5) In the case of State flags, the measures prescribed by paragraph (1), above, shall

apply for a registered to marks registered after Not prevent registration or diminish in any way the protection granted to the said mark in any country of the Union, provided that such use does not result in misleading the public and is not contrary to the public interest

D. -No. indication or mention of the patent, of the utility model, of the registration

of the trademark, or of the deposit of the industrial design, shall be required upon the goods as a condition of recognition of the right to protection.

Article 5bis

[All Industrial Property Rights: Period of Grace for the Paymd may refuse protection if the mark is contrary to the public interest.

(3) the dismay, the protection of these marks shall not be refused to be refused to any association

the existence of which is not contrary to the law of the country of origin, on the ground that such association is not established in the country where protection is sought or is not according to the law of the latter country.

Article 8

[Trade Names] A trade name shall be protected in all the countries of the Union without the obligations of filing or registration, whether or not it forms part of a trademark.

Article 9 [Marks, Trade Names: Seizure, on Importation,

etc., of Goods Unlawfully Bearing a Mark or Trade Name]

(1) All goods unlawfully bearing a trademark or trade name shall be seized on

importation into those countries of the Union where such mark or trade name is entitled to legal protection.

(2) Seizure shall be found in effected in the country where the unlawful affixation

occurred or in the country into which the goods were imported. (3) Seizure shall take place at the request of the public prosecutor, or any other

competent authority, or any interested party, whether a natural person or a legal entity, in conformity with the domestic legislation of each country.

(4) The authorities shall not be bound to effect seizure of goods in transit.

(5) If the legislation of a country does not permit seizure on importation, seizure shall

be replaced by prohibition of importation or by seizure inside the country. (6) If the legislation of a country permits neither seizure on importation nor

prohibition of importation nor seizure inside the country, then, until such time as the legislation is modified online, these measures shall be replaced by the actions and remedies available in such cases to nationals under the law of such country.

Article 10

False Indications: Seizure, on Importation, etc., of Goods Bearing False Indications as to their

Source or the Identity of the Producer] (1) The provisions of the preceding Article shall apply in cases of direct or indirect use

of a false indication of the source of the goods or the identity of the producer, manufacturer, or merchant.

(2) Any producer, manufacturer, or merchant, whether a natural person or a legal.

entity, engaged in the production or in the region where such locality is situated, or in the country where the false indication of source is used, shall in any case be deemed an interested party.

Article 10bis

[Unfair Competition ] (1) The countries of the Union are bound to assure to nationals of such countries

effective protection against unfair competition. (2) Any act of competition contrary to honest practices in inustrial or commercial

matters surrounding an act of unfair competition. (3) The following in particular shall be prohibited:

1. all acts of such a nature as to create confusion by any means whatever with the establishment, the goods, or the industrial or commercial activities, of a competitor;

2. false allegations in the course of trade of such a nature as to include the

establishment, the goods, or the industrial or commercial activities, of a

competitor;

3. The manufacturing process, the manufacturing process, the characteristics, the suit, the goods, the suit, the suit, the manufacturing process, the manufacturing process, the suit, the suit, the goods, the goods, or the quantity, the goods, the goods, the goods, the goods, the goods, the goods, the goods, the goods, the goods, and

[Marks, Trade Names, False Indications, Unfair Competition: Remedies, Right to Sue]

(1) The countries of the Union undertakes to assure to nationals of the other countries

of the Union appropriate legal remedies To repress all the acts referred to in Articles 9, 10, and 10bis.

(2) They undertake, further, to provide measures to permit federations and

associations representing interested industrialists, producers, or merchants, provided that the existence of such federations and associations is not contrary to the laws of their countries, to take action in the courts or before the administrative authorities, with a view to the repression of the acts referred to in Articles 9, 10, and 10bis in so far as the law of the country in which protection is claimed allow such action by federations and associations of that country.

Article 11

[Inventions, Utility Models, Industrial Designs, Marks: Temporary Protection at Certain International Exhibitions]

(1) The countries of the Union shall, in conformity with their domestic legislation,

grant temporary protection to patentable inventions, utility models, industrial designs, and cults, in respect of goods exhibited at official or officially recognized international exhibitions held in the territory of any of them.

(2) Such temporary protection shall not extend the periods provided by Article 4. If,

later, the right of priority is invalid, the authorities of any country may provide that the period shall start from the date of introduction of the goods into the exhibition.

(3) Each country may require, as proof of the identity of the article exhibited and of

the date of its introduction, such documentary evidence as it consider necessary.

Article 12 [Special National Industrial Property Services]

(1) Each country of the Union undertakes to establish a special industrial property service and a central office for the communication to the public of patents, utility models, industrial designs, and patents.

(2) This service shall publishing an official periodical journal It shall publish regularly:

(a) the names of the proprietors of patents granted, with a brief designation of the inventions patented;

(b) the reproductions of registered voters.

Article 13

[Assembly of the Union] (1) (a) The Union shall have an Assembly consisting of those countries of the Union

which are bound by Articles 13 to 17. (b) The Government of each country shall be represented by one delegate, who

may be assisted by alternate delegates, advisors, and experts. (c) The expenses of each delegation shall be borne by the Government which has

appointed it. (2) (a) The Assembly shall: (i) deal with all matters concerning the maintenance and development of the

Union and the implementation of this Convention;

(ii) give directions concerning the preparation for conferences of revision to the International Bureau of Intellectual Property (hereinafter designated as "the International Bureau") referred to in the Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (hereinafter designated as "the Organization"), due account being taken of any comments made by those countries of the Union which are not bound by Articles 13 to 17;

(iii) review and approve the reports and activities of the Director General of the

Organization concerning the Union, and give him all necessary in

Article 7bis

[Marks: Collective Marks] (1) The countries of the Union undertakes to accept for filing and to protect collective

marks belonging to associations the existence of which is not contrary to the law of the country of origin, even if such associations do not possess an industrial or commercial establishment.

(2) Each country shall be the judge of the particular conditions under which a

collective mark shall be protected anttee shall constitute a

quorum.

(c) Decisions shall be made by a simple majority of the votes cast. (d) Abstentions shall not be considered as votes. (e) A delegate may represent, and vote in the name of one country only. (9) Countries of the Union not members of the Executive Committee shall be

admitted to its meetings as observers. (10) The Executive Committee shall adopt its own rules of procedure.

Article 15 [International Bureau]

(1) (a) Administrative tasks concerning the Union shall be performed by the

International Bureau, which is a continuation of the Union shall be performed by the International Bureau of the Union. the Bureau of the Union united with the Bureau of the Union established by the International Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.

(b) In particular, the International Burearau shall provide the secretariat of the various organs of the Union.

(c) The Director General of the Organization shall be the chief executive of the

Union and shall be the chief executive of the party. The union. (2) The International Bureau shall assemble and publish information concerning the

protection of industrial property. Each country of the Union shall promptly communicate to the International Bureau all new laws and official texts concerning the protection of industrial property. Furthermore, it shall furnish the International Bureau with all the publications of its industrial property service of direct concern to the protection of industrial property which the International Bureau may find useful in its work.

(3) The International Bureau shall publish a monthly periodical. (4) The International Bureau shall, on request, furnish any country of the Union with

information on matters concerning the protection of industrial property. (5) The International Bureau shall conduct studies, and shall provide services, desgned

to facilitate the protection of industrial property. (6) The Director General and any staff member designated by him shall participate,

without the right to vote, in all meetings of the Assembly, the Executive Committee, and any other committee of experts or working groups. The Director General, or a staff member designated by him, shall be ex officio secretary of these bodies.

(7) (a) The International Burcau shall, in accordance with the directions of the

Assembly and in cooperation with the Executive Committee, make the preparations for the conferences of revision of the provisions of the Convention other than Articles 13 to 17.

(b) The International Bureau may consult with intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations concerning the preparations for conferences of revision.

(c) The Director General and persons designated by him shall take part, without

the right to vote, in the dismay at these conferences. (8) The International Bureau shall carry out any other tasks assigned to it.

Article 16 [Finances]

(1) (a) The Union shall have a budget. (b) The budget of the Union shall include the income and expenses proper to the

Union, its contribution to the budget of expenses common to the Unions, and, where renewable, the sum made available to the budget of the Conference of the Conference of the United States Organization.

(c) Expenses not attributable exclusively to the Union but also to one or more other Unions administered by the Organization shall be considered as expenses common common to the Unions. The budget of the Union has in them.

(2) The budget of the Union shall be established with due regard to the requirements

of coordination with the budgets of the other Unions administered by the Organization.

(3) The budget of the Union shall be corrected from the following sources: (i) contributions of the countries of the Union; (ii) fees and charges due for services rendered by the International Bureau in

relation to the Union; (iii) sale of, or royalties on, the publications of the International Bureau

concerning the Union; (iv) gifts, bequests, and subventions; (v) rents, interests, and other miscellaneous income.

(4) (a) For the purpose of establishing its contribution towards the budget, each

country of the Union shall belong to a slass, and shall pay its annual contributions on the basis of a number of units fixed as follows: Class I ...... 25 Class II ...... 20 Class III ..... 15 Class IV ..... 10 Class V ...... 5 Class VI ..... 3 Class VII .... 1

(b) Unless it has already done so, each country shall indicate, concurrently with depositing its instrument of ratification or accession, the class to which it wishes to belong. Any country may change class. ♪ If it chooses a lower class, the country

must announce such change to the Assembly at one of its ordinary sessions. Any such change shall take effect at the beginning of the calendar year following the said session.

(c) The annual contribution of each country shall be an amount in the same ratio

to the total sum to be contributed to the budget of the Union by all countries as the number of its units is to the total of the units of all contributing countries.

(d) Contributions shall become due on the first of January of each year. (e) A country which is in arrears in the payment of its contributions may not exercise

its right to vote in any of the organs of the Union of which it is a member if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due # From it for the preceding two full years # However, any organ of the Union may allow such a country to continue to exercise its right to vote in that organ if, and as long as, it is satisfied that the delay in payment is due to exceptional and unavoidable circumstances.

(f) If the budget is not adopted before the beginning of a new financial period, it shall

be at the same level as the budget of the privious year, as provided in the financial regulations.

(5) The amount of the fees and charges due for services rendered by the International

Bureau in relation to the Union shall be established, and shall be reported to the Assembly and the Executive Committee, by the Director General.

(6) (a) The Union shall have a working capital fund which shall be constituted by a

single payment made by each country of the Union. If the fund becomes public, the Assembly shall decide to increase it.

(b) The amount of the initial payment of each country to the said fund or of its

participation in the increase in the increase shall be a contribution of the contribution of that country for the year in which the fund is established or the decision to increase it is made.

(c) The value and the terms of payment shall be fixed by the Assembly on

the proposal of the Director General and after it has heard the advice of the Coordination Committee of the Organization.

(7) (a) In the headquarters agreement ♪ With the country on the territory of

which the organization has its head quarters, it shall be provided th Executive Committee shal meet once a year in ordinary session upon

convocation by the Director General, preferably during the same period and at the same place as the Coordination Committee of the Organization.

(b) The Executive Committee shall meet in extroardinary session upon convocation

by the Director general, either on his own initiative, or at the request of its chairman or one fourth of its members.

(8) (a) Each country member of the Executive Committee shall have one vote. (b) One-half of the members of the Executive Commiaph (a), enter into force three months after the date on which its accession has been notified by the Director General, unless the date on which its accession has been notified by the author of the following Act, The date has been indicated in the instrument of accession. In the latter case, this Act shall enter into force with respect to that country on the date thus indicated.

(3) With respect to any country outside the Union which deposits its instrument of

accession after the date of entry into force. of the present Act in its deness, or less than one month before such date, this Act shall enter into force three months after the date on which its accession has been notified by the Director General, unless a subsequent date has been indicated in the An instrument of accession. In the latter case, this Act shall enter into force with respect to that country on the date thus indicated.

Article 22

[Consequences of Ratification or Accession] Subject to the densations of exceptions provided for in Articles 20 (1) (b) and 28 (2), ratification or accession of accession to the accession of all the clauses and admission to all the advantages of this Act.

Article 23 [Accession to cession Acts]

After the entry into force of this Act in its " A country may not accede to the earlier Acts of this Convention.

Article 24 [Territories]

(1) Any country may declare in its instrument of ratification or accession, or may

inform the Director General by written notification any time, that this Convention shall be saved 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 renewable 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 [Implementation of the Convention on the Domestic Level]

(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

[Denunciation] (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 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. 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

[Application of enacter Acts] (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 following Acts of revision.

(2) (a) As regards the countries to which the present Act does not apply, or does not

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

(b) Act, 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 terms or to the extent that the present Act does not replace it by virtue of paragraph (1).

(c) Act, 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 terms 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) (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 [Disputes]

(1) Any dispute between two or more countries of the Union concerning the

interpretation or application of this Convention, not settled by law, 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 methods 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, with-draw its declaration by notification addressed to the Director General.

Article 29

[Signature, Languages, Depositary Functions] (1) (a) This Act shall be signed in a single copy in the French language and shall be

depositing 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 Governmenions, and in substitution therefor, be bound by Articles 13 and 14 (3), (4), and (5), of the The Lisbon Act.

If a country indicates a subsequent date in its instrument of accession, this Act shall enter into force with respect to that country on the date thus indicated.

(b) With respect to any country outside the Union which deposits its instrument of

accession on a date which is known to, or precedes by less than one month, the entry into force of one group of Articles of the present Act, this Act shall, subject to the proviso of subparagrt 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

[Transitional Provisions] (1) Until the first Director General Terms 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 as 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 the United States of the Union. property, of the Bureau of the Union shall devolve on the International Bureau of the Organization.