Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 38 Part 2.djvu/446

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CONVENTION-INDUSTRIAL rnor>Em*Y. Jm 2, 1911. 1663 Aarrcu: 9. An product illegally a trademark or a trade nam shall b °°"°'°m,g·,°,,‘°~,m· ,°'m“d· seized, at importation m those of the countries of the Unioncin whiclti mes this mark or this trade name may have a right to legal protection. _If the laws of a country do not admit of seizure on importation, the seizure shall be rgaced by prohibition of importation. The seizure sh be likewise effected in the country where illegal aflixinhglshag have beeggilade, or in the country into which the product ve een rm o . The seizure shallp be made at the request of the public ministry, or any other competent authority, or by an intereste party, individual or society, m conformity to the interior laws of each country. The authorities shall not be required to make the seizure in transit. If the laws of a country admit neither of the seizure on importation nor the prohibition of importation, nor seizure in said country, these measures shall be replaced by the acts and means which the law of such country would assure in like case to its own citizens. ARTICLE 10. The provisions of the preceding article shall be applicable to any *PP“°•“°"· product bea.ring falsely, as indication of place of production, the name of a definite locality, when this indication shall be joined to a fictitrous or borrowed trade name with an intention to defraud. The interested party is considered any producer, manufacturer ormerchant, engaged in the production, manufacture or commerce of such product, and established either in the locality falsely indicated as place of production or in the region where this locality rs situated. Anrrcnn 10}. All the contracting countries agree to assure to the rnembers of the Union an effective protection against unfair competition. A.atr1cLn 11. The contracting countries shall accord, in conformity with their ,,§,°",§’€°§‘},",,,,,},’{,‘I,,§"2‘\ national laws, a temporary rotectron to patentable inventions, work- ¤¤P°¤m°¤¤· ing models, industrial models or designs, as_ well as to trademarks, for products exhibited at international exposrtions, official or officially recognized, organized in the territory o one of them. Aarronn 12. Each of the contracting countries {agrees to establish aspecial service ,,,L‘§,,“f·'"'“‘ "°’°"’ for Industrial Property and a centr office for the communication to thel pualgic of égatents, worki.ng models, industrial models or designs an tr e . This sexe; shall publish, as often as possible, an official 0****** P¤*>“°*“°¤~ Anrrcnn 13. The international Office instituted at Berne under the name of B °‘ "Bureau international pour la protection de la Proprrété mdustr1elle" is placed under the high authority of the_ Goyernment of the Swiss Confederation, which regulates its organization and supervises its operation. _ _ _ The international Bureau shall centrahze rnformatron of any nature F““°“°"‘· relative to the protection of industrial propegtdy, and form rt m a general statistical report which shall be distrrbu to allAdm.m1stratrons.