The contracting countries can, under like conditions, renounce the Convention for their colonies, possessions, dependencies and protectorates, or for certain ones of them.

ART. 17. The fulfilment of the reciprocal obligations contained in the present Convention is subordinated, in so far as need be, to compliance with the formalities and regulations established by the constitutional laws of those of the contracting countries which are bound to secure the application of the same which they engage to do with the least possible delay.

ART. 17. The Convention shall remain in force an indefinite time, until the expiration of one year from the day when the renunciation shall be made.

This renunciation shall be addressed to the Government of the Swiss Confederation. It shall affect only the country giving such notice, the Convention remaining operative as to the other contracting countries.

ART. 18. The present act shall be ratified, and the ratifications filed in Washington, at the latest, April 1, 1913. It shall be put into execution, among the countries which shall have ratified it, one month after the expiration of this period of time.

This act, with its Final Protocol, shall replace, in the relations of the countries which shall have ratified it: The Convention of Paris, March 20, 1883; the Final Protocol annexed to that act; the Protocol of Madrid, April 15, 1891, relating to the dotation of the International Bureau, and the Additional Act of Brussels, December 14, 1900. However, the acts cited shall remain binding on the countries which shall not have ratified the present act.

ART. 19. The present act shall be signed in a single copy, which shall be filed in the archives of the Government of the United States. A certified copy shall be sent by the latter to each of the Unionist Governments.

In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present act.

Done at Washington, in a single copy, the second day of June, 1911. (Here follow the signatures.)

Final Protocol.

At the time of proceeding to the signing of the act concluded on this day, the undersigned plenipotentiaries are agreed upon the following:

TO ARTICLE 1. The words "Propriété industrielle" (industrial property) shall be taken in their broadest acceptation; they extend to all production in the domain of agricultural industries (wines,

grains, fruits, animals, etc.), and extractives (minerals, mineral waters, etc.).

To ART. 2. (a) Under the name of patents are comprised the different kinds of industrial patents admitted by the laws of the contracting countries, such as patents of importation, patents of improvement, etc., for the processes as well as for the products.

(b) It is understood that the provision in Article 2 which dispenses the members of the Union from obligation of domicile and of establishment has an interpretable character, and must consequently, be applied to all the rights granted by the Convention of March 20, 1883, before the entrance into force of the present act.

(c) It is understood that the provisions of Article 2 do not infringe the laws of each of the contracting countries, in regard to the procedure followed before the courts and the competency of those courts, as well as the election of domicile or the declaration of the selection of an attorney required by the laws on patents, working models, marks, etc.

To ART. 4. It is understood that, when an industrial model or design shall have been filed in a country by virtue of the right of priority based on the filing of a working model, the term of priority shall be only that which Article 4 has fixed for industrial models and designs.

To ART. 6. It is understood that the provision of the first paragraph of Article 6 does not exclude the right to require of the depositor a certificate of regular registration in the country of origin, issued by competent authority.

It is understood that the use of badges, insignia or public decorations which shall not have been authorized by competent powers, or the use of official signs and stamps of control and of guaranty adopted by a unionist country, may be considered as contrary to public order in the sense of No. 3 of Article 6.

However, marks, which contain, with the authorization of competent powers, the reproduction of badges, decorations or public insignia, shall not be considered as contrary to public order.

It is understood that a mark shall not be considered as contrary to public order for the sole reason that it is not in conformity with some provision of laws on marks except in the case where such provision itself concerns public order.

The present Final Protocol, which shall be ratified at the same time as the act concluded on this day, shall be considered as forming an integral part of this act, and shall be of like force, value and duration.

In witness whereof the respective plenipoteniaries have signed the present Protocol.

Done at Washington, in a single copy, June 2, 1911.

Haniel von Haimhausen, H. Robolski, Albert Osterrieth,
L. Baron de Hengelmuller, Dr. Paul Chevalier Beck
de Mannagetta et Lerchenau, Elemér Pompéry, J.
Brunet, Georges de Ro, Capitaine, R. De Lima e
Silva, J. Clan, Juan Riaño y Gayangos, J. Florez
Posada, Edward Bruce Moore, Melville Church,
Charles H. Duell, Frederick P. Fish, Robt. H. Park-
inson, Emilio C. Joubert, Pierre Lefèvre-Pontalis,
Michel Pelletier, G. Breton, Georges Maillard, A.
Mitchell Innes, A. E. Bateman, W. Temple Franks,
Lazzaro Negrotto Cambiaso, Emilio Venezian, G. B.
Ceccato, K. Matsui, Morio Nakamatsu, J. De las
Fuentes, Snyder van Wissenkerke, J. F. H. M. Da
Franca, Vte. D'Alte, Albert Ehrensvärd, P. Ritter,
W. Kraft. Henri Martin, E. De Peretti de la Rocca,
Ludwig Aubert, Antonio Martin Rivero.

And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified by the United States of America, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Dominican Republic, Spain, the French Republic, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the United Mexican States, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland and Tunis, and the ratifications were deposited with the Government of the United States, on the 1st day of April, 1913; Now, therefore be it known that I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-seventh.

[SEAL.]

By the President:

JOHN B. MOORE,

Acting Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON.

INTERNATIONAL UNION.

STATES OF THE UNION FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY, JANUARY 1, 1911.

STATES OF THE UNION FOR THE PROTECTION OF LITERARY AND ARTISTIC

FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY, WITH THE MODIFICATIONS AND ADDITIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE

CONFERENCES AT MADRID AND BRUSSELS.

Convention:

Signature, March 20, 1883, at Paris.

Deposition of the ratifications, June 6, 1884, at Paris.

Entered into force, July 6, 1884.

Records respecting the endowment of the international office:
Signature, April 15, 1891, at Madrid.

Deposition of ratifications, June 15, 1892, at Madrid.

Entered into force, January 1, 1898.

Additional charter:

Signature, December 14, 1900, at Brussels.

Deposition of ratifications (close of the proceedings), June 14, 1902, at Brussels.

Entered into force, September 14, 1902.

LIST OF THE STATES THAT ARE MEMBERS OF THE UNION.

Since the Convention went into force: Belgium, Brazil, Spain, France with Algiers and colonies, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal with Azores and Madeira, Servia, Switzerland, Tunis, Norway from July 1, 1885, Sweden from July 1, 1885, United States of