TABLE OF CONTENTS. Sec. 1. First final protocol to Convention. Comments of Mr. Greeley thereon. CHAP. 1.-Act providing for the appointment and duties of the commissioners. Sec. 2. Supplemental convention amending Convention of Paris, Sec. 5. Rules for the international registration of trade-marks.. CHAP. 3.-Protocols adopted at the Brussels Conference of 1897. CHAP. 4.-Propositions for the amendment of the Convention made by the CHAP. 5.-Report of the United States delegates to the Brussels Conference of CHAP. 6.-Report of the British delegates to the Brussels Conference of 1897.. CHAP. 7.-Resolutions adopted at the Patent Congress held at Vienna Exposition, 1873. CHAP. 8.-Conferences 1880, 1883, 1886, and 1890.. Sec. 2. Second final protocol to agreement concerning the inter- 53 56 83 93 94 Sec. 1. Correspondence relating to the international conference 97 Sec. 2. Report of United States delegates to conference at Paris, 104 Sec. 3. Report of United States delegates to conference at Rome, 112 Sec. 4. Report of United States delegates to conference at Madrid, 114 CHAP. 9.-Legislation of certain of the States of the Union for the protection of industrial property enforcing Convention and agreements.... Sec. 1. Denmark 123 123 Sec. 2. Great Britain and colonies, viz, Malta, New South 123 Sec. 3. Norway 129 Sec. 4. Sweden. CHAP. 10.-Treaties of the United States relating to trade-marks. Sec. 1. With Austria-Hungary. Sec. 2. Belgium 129 131 131 132 Sec. 3. Brazil 134 Page. CHAP. 11.-Conventions between foreign states 146 Sec. 1. Convention of Montevideo (South American States) 146 Sec. 2. Convention of Montevideo (South American States) 147 Sec. 3. Convention concluded December 6, 1891, between Ger- 148 Sec. 4. Conventions concluded by Germany with Italy and with 150 Sec. 4. Sec. 5. Convention between Russia and Switzerland.. CHAP. 12.-Report of British parliamentary committee of 1888 on trade-marks. Sec. 2. Denmark Sec. 5. Sweden.. Sec. 6. Switzerland.. CHAP. 14. Laws relating to collective trade-marks Sec. 1. France. Sec. 2. Germany Sec. 3. Great Britain. Sec. 4. Portugal. Sec. 5. Switzerland. CHAP. 15 Legislation in United States concerning trade-marks Sec. 1. Debate in Congress preceding the act of 1870. Sec. 3. Debate in Congress preceding the act of 1876.. 152 154 161 161 161 161 162 162 162 163 163 163 163 164 164 165 165 170 172 176 CHAPTER I. ACT PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT AND DUTIES OF THE COMMISSIONERS. AN ACT Appointing commissioners to revise the statutes relating to patents, trade and other marks, and trade and commercial names. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint three commissioners, to serve without compensation, whose duty it shall be to revise and amend the laws of the United States concerning patents, trade and other marks, and trade or commercial names, which shall be in force at the time such commission shall make its final report, so far as the same relates to matters contained in or affected by the Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property concluded at Paris March twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, the agreements under said Convention concluded at Madrid April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the protocols adopted by the conference held under such Convention at Brussels, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and the treaties of the United States, and the laws of other nations relating to patents, trade and other marks, and trade or commercial names. That they shall report to Congress as soon as possible. That the report shall be so made as to indicate any proposed change in the substance of existing law, and shall be accompanied by notes which shall briefly and clearly state the reasons for any proposed change. It shall also be accompanied by references to such treaties and foreign laws relating to patents, trade and other marks, and trade or commercial names, as, in the opinion of the commissioners, may affect citizens of the United States. That the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated to pay the necessary expenses of the commissioners in making their report, which sum shall be immediately available. Approved, June 4, 1898. 9 CHAPTER II. CONVENTION AND AGREEMENTS ESPECIALLY MENTIONED IN THE ACT PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS. SECTION 1. CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY, CONCLUDED AT PARIS, MARCH 20, 1883. FINAL PROTOCOL. PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT JUNE 11, 1887. CONVENTION AND FINAL PROTOCOL BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN, GAUTEMALA, ITALY, THE NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, PORTUGAL, SALVADOR, SERVIA, SPAIN, SWEDEN, THE SWISS CONFEDERATION, TUNIS, FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY. 1 AND [Concluded at Paris, March 20, 1883. Exchange of ratifications by Signatory Powers, June 6, 1884. Adhesion to the Convention advised by the Senate, March 2, 1887. Ratified by the President, March 29, 1887. Accession of the United States to the Union announced by the Minister Resident and Consul-General of the United States at Berne to the Federal Council of Switzerland, May 30, 1887. Proclaimed, June 11, 1887.] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas a Convention and Final Protocol, in the French language, for the Protection of Industrial Property were concluded on the 20th day of March 1883 at Paris, France, between the Kingdom of Belgium and the Empire of Brazil, the French Republic, the Republic of Guatemala, the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Portugal, the Republic of Salvador, the Kingdom of Servia, the Kingdom of Spain, and the Swiss Confederation, the tenor of which Convention and Final Protocol is as follows: His Majesty the King of the Belgians; His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil; His Majesty the King of Spain; The President of the French Republic; The President of the Republic of Guatemala; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the King of the Netherlands; His Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves; the President of the Republic of Salvador; His Majesty the King of Servia; the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation; Equally animated by the desire to assure, by common accord, a complete Convention pour la Protection de la Propriété Industrielle. Sa Majesté le Roi des Belges, Sa Majesté l'Empereur du Brésil, Sa Majesté le Roi d'Espagne, le Président de la République Française, le Président de la République de Guatemala, Sa Majesté le Roi d'Italie, Sa Majesté le Roi des Pays-Bas, Sa Majesté le Roi de Portugal et des Algarves, le Président de la République de Salvador, Sa Majesté le Roi de Serbie et le Conseil fédéral de la Confédération Suisse; Également animés du désir d'assurer, d'un common accord, une complète et The Republic of Salvador has announced its intentions of withdrawing from the Union on and after August 17, 1887. |