Paris Notification No. 111
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property

Entry Into Force of Amendments to Articles 13(2)(a)(vi), 13(7)(a), 14(6)(a)(ii) and 14(6)(a)

The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify His Excellency that the following amendments to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, ("Stockholm Act (1967)") will enter into force on June 3, 1984:

It is recalled that the said amendments were unanimously adopted by the Assembly of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property (Paris Union), founded by the said Paris Convention (see document AB/X/32, paragraph 33). At that time, the number of States members of the Assembly of the Paris union was 71.

The entry into force of the said amendments was brought about by the receipt by the Director General of notifications of acceptance of those amendments from the required number of States members of the said Assembly at the time the Assembly adopted the amendments, that is, from three-fourths of the 71 said member States. The required number of notifications is 54. They were received, in chronological order, from the following member States (the date of receipt is indicated in parentheses): Liechtenstein (November 16, 1979), Federal Republic of Germany (December 11, 1979), Norway (December 14, 1979), Denmark (December 24, 1979), Tunisia (January 3, 1980), Ireland (January 4, 1980), Sweden (January 9, 1980), Upper Volta (January 14, 1980), Spain (January 17, 1980), Monaco (January 23, 1980), France (January 31, 1980), Brazil (February 8, 1980), Holy See (February 25, 1980) , Italy (February 26, 1980), Suriname (March 3, 1980), Czechoslovakia (April 15, 1980), Bahamas (May 6, 1980), Canada (May 16, 1980), United States of America (June 2, 1980), Romania (June 11, 1980), Zambia (June 23, 1980), Switzerland (July 3, 1980), Luxembourg (October 3, 1980), United Kingdom (November 4, 1980), Portugal (December 15, 1980), Bulgaria (January 5, 1981), Hungary (February 19, 1981), Greece (April 2, 1981), Finland (October 23, 1981), Soviet Union (October 30, 1981), Australia (November 13, 1981), Kenya (November 16, 1981), Mexico (November 23, 1981), Israel (November 25, 1981), Turkey (December 30, 1981), Niger (January 15, 1982), Egypt (January 25, 1982), Malawi (March 5, 1982), Jordan (March 24, 1982), German Democratic Republic (August 6, 1982), Iraq (August 30, 1983), Algeria (September 1, 1983), Central African Republic (September 15, 1983), Viet Nam (September 23, 1983), Congo (October 5, 1983), Uganda (October 12, 1983), Mauritius (December 13, 1983), Netherlands (January 9, 1984), Burundi (February 28, 1984), Cameroon (March 26, 1984), Chad (April 3, 1984), Benin (April 11, 1984), Morocco (May 1, 1984), Togo (May 3, 1984).

It is recalled that, according to the applicable provisions of the Stockholm Act (1967) of the said Paris Convention, the amendments bind not only all the States members of the Assembly of the Paris Union at the time the amendments enter into force but also the States "which become members thereof at a subsequent date" (Article 17(3)).

May 24, 1984