United States Treaty Series/Volume 1/Protection of industrial property (1891)

PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

• Protocol (amendatory of the convention of March 20, 1883) signed at Madrid April 15, 1891
• Senate advice and consent to ratification, with a reservation, March 2, 1892^[1]
• Ratified by the President of the United States, with a reservation, March 30, 1892^[1]
• Ratifications exchanged at Madrid June 15, 1892
• Proclaimed by the President of the United States June 22, 1892
• Entered into force July 15, 1892
• Convention of 1883 replaced May 1, 1913, by convention of June 2, 1911,^[2]as between contracting parties to the later convention; definitively October 10, 1925^[3]

27 Stat. 958; Treaty Series 385

[TRANSLATION]

Third Protocol

Protocol concerning the dotation of the International Bureau of the Union for the protection of Industrial Property between Belgium, Brazil, Spain, The United States of America, France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Italy, Norway, The Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Tunis.

The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Governments above named,

In view of the declaration adopted March 12, 1883, by the International Conference for the Protection of Industrial Property convened at Paris,

Have, with one accord and subject to ratification, concluded the following Protocol:

Article 1

The first paragraph of No. 6 of the final Protocol annexed to the International Convention of March 20, 1883,^[4] for the Protection of Industrial Property is annulled. and replaced by the following provision.

"The expenses of the International Bureau instituted by Article 13 shall be supported by the contracting States in common. They cannot in any event exceed the sum of sixty thousand francs per annum."

Article 2

The present Protocol shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Madrid, within aperiod of six months at the latest.

It shall take effect one month after the exchange of ratifications, and shall have the same force and duration as the Convention of March 20, 1883, of which it shall be considered as forming an integral part.

In testimony whereof, the Plenipotentiaries of the States above named have signed the present Protocol at Madrid, the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

For Belgium	Th. de Bounder de Melsbroeck
For„ Brazil	Luis F. d'Abreu
For„ Spain	S. Moret, Marquis de Aguilar, Enrique Calleja, Luis Mariano de Larra
For„ The United States of America ⁠	E. Burd Grubb
For„ France and Tunis	P. Cambon
For„ Great Britain	Francis Clark Ford
For„ Guatemala	J. Carrera
For„ Italy	Maffei
For„ Norway	Arild Huitfeldt
For„ The Netherlands	Gericke
For„ Portugal	Count de Caral Ribeiro
For„ Sweden	Arild Huitfeldt
For„ Switzerland	Ch. E. Lardet
For„ Switzerland„	Morel

1. The U.S. reservation reads as follows: "The share allotted to the United States to contribute to the dotation of the International Bureau is not to be augmented until the Congress of the United States shall have approved the augmentation."
2. TS 579, post, p. 791.
3. Date by which all parties to the 1883 convention had become parties to the 1911 convention.
4. TS 379, ante, p. 80.