Publication 845: Part I

(i) “Member State” means a State member of the Paris Union for the Protection of Industrial Property, of the World Intellectual Property Organization, or of both;

(ii) “Right” means an industrial property right in a sign under the applicable law, whether registered or unregistered;

(iii) “Act of unfair competition” means any act of competition contrary to honest business practices in industrial or commercial matters as defined in Article 10 bis of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed in Paris on March 20, 1883, as revised and amended;

(iv) “Competent authority” means an administrative, judicial or quasi-judicial authority of a Member State which is competent for determining whether a right has been acquired, maintained or infringed, for determining remedies, or for determining whether an act of competition constitutes an act of unfair competition, as the case may be;

(v) “Remedies” means the remedies which a competent authority of a Member State can impose under the applicable law, as a result of an action for the infringement of a right or an act of unfair competition;

(vi) “Internet” refers to an interactive medium for communication which contains information that is simultaneously and immediately accessible irrespective of territorial location to members of the public from a place and at a time individually chosen by them;

(vii) except where the context indicates otherwise, words in the singular include the plural, and vice versa, and masculine personal pronouns include the feminine.