Monthly Review of the WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO) Industrial and the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI) Published monthly J2th year - No. 7 Annual subscription: Sw.fr. 75.— Properly Each monthly issue: Sw.fr. 9 — JULY 1973 Contents VIENNA DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE — Vienna Diplomatic Conference on Industrial Property, 1973 Note 187 List of Participants 188 Officers and Committees 195 WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION — WIPO Convention I. Ratification. Yugoslavia 197 II. Accession. Uganda 197 III. Application of the Transitional Provisions (Five-Year Privilege). Chile, Mauritania 197 INTERNATIONAL UNIONS — Paris Convention I. Ratification of the Stockholm Act. Yugoslavia 198 II. Accession to the Stockholm Act. Uganda 198 — Madrid Agreement (Marks). Ratification of the Stockholm Act. Yugoslavia . 198 — Nice Agreement. Ratification of the Stockholm Act. Yugoslavia 198 — Locarno Agreement. Ratification. Yugoslavia 198 — Strasbourg Agreement. Ratification. Germany (Federal Republic of) . 198 WIPO MEETINGS — WIPO Legal-Technical Program for the Acquisition by Developing Countries of Technology Related to Industrial Property. Provisional Committee .... 199 CONVENTIONS NOT ADMINISTERED BY WIPO — European Convention on the International Classification of Patents for Invention. Denunciations. Denmark, Germany (Federal Republic of) 200 LETTERS FROM CORRESPONDENTS — Letter from the Federal Republic of Germany (Friedrich-Karl Beier and Paul Katzenberger) 201 CALENDAR 211 Vacancy in WIPO 212 © WIPO 1973 Any reprodnction of articles and translations of laws, published in this periodical, is authorized only with the prior consent of WIPO 187 VIENNA DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE Vienna Diplomatic Conference on Industrial Property, 1973 Note * Each of the Diplomatic Conferences had a Main Commit- tee, in which most of the discussions took place. All govern- The Vienna Conference mental delegations and the representatives of all the observer The " Vienna Diplomatic Conference on Industrial Prop- organizations had the right to participate in the work of the erty, 1973 " took place, at the invitation of the Government Main Committees, and most of them did actively participate. of the Republic of Austria, in Vienna from May 17 to June 12, The Main Committees were chaired by Mr. E. Armitage 1973. The meetings were held in the conference premises of (United Kingdom) for the Trademark Registration Treaty the Hofburg. Conference, by Professor E. Ulmer (Federal Republic of Ger- Delegations of 56 States and representatives of 32 organi- many) for the Type Faces Conference, and by Mr. T. Lorenz zations registered as participants. The list of participants, (Austria) for the Classification Conference. totalling more than 300 persons, appears at the end of this Mr. Klaus Pfanner, Head of the Industrial Property Divi- Note. sion of WIPO, was the Secretary of the Trademark Registra- Of the 56 States, 53 were members of the International tion Treaty Conference. Professor Joseph Voyame, Second Union for the Protection of Industrial Property (Paris Union) Deputy Director General of WIPO, was Secretary of the Type or of the International Union for the Protection of Literary Faces Conference. Mr. Léon Egger, Head of the International and Artistic Works (Berne Union). The remaining 3 were not Registrations Division of WIPO, was Secretary of the Classi- members of either of the two Unions; they participated as fication Conference. observers. The Instruments Adopted Of the 32 organizations, 8 were intergovernmental and 24 non-governmental. Although their status was that of observer, The Trademark Registration Treaty Conference adopted their representatives had the possibility of participating in the the Trademark Registration Treaty, the Regulations under substantive discussions in the Main Committees and, in fact, that Treaty and a Resolution Concerning Preparatory Mea- sures for the Entry Into Force of the Trademark Registration they frequently availed themselves of this possibility. The Secretariat was furnished by the staff of the Inter- Treaty. The texts of these instruments will be published in the national Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organiza- August 1973 issue of this review. tion (WIPO). The Type Faces Conference adopted the Vienna Agreement The 28 WIPO staff members were led by the Director for the Protection of Type Faces and their International De- General of WIPO, Professor G. H. C. Bodenhausen. posit, the Regulations under that Agreement, and a Protocol Professor F. Schönherr, Head of the Austrian Delegation to that Agreement. to the Vienna Conference, was President of the Conference. The Classification Conference adopted the Vienna Agree- Dr. Arpad Bogsch, First Deputy Director General of WIPO, ment Establishing an International Classification of the Fig- urative Elements of Marks, the International Classification of was Secretary General of the Vienna Conference, and Profes- sor Joseph Voyame, Second Deputy Director General of the Figurative Elements of Marks and a Resolution concerning preparations for the entry into force of the Agreement. WIPO, was Deputy Secretary General. The texts adopted by the Type Faces and Classification The Credentials Committee of the Vienna Conference was Conferences (except the Classification itself) will be published chaired by His Excellency Mr. R. Huybrecht, Head of the Bel- in the September 1973 issue of this review. gian Delegation to the Conference. All instruments were adopted unanimously. The Three Diplomatic Conferences Signatures The Vienna Conference provided the framework within The instruments adopted were opened for signature at the which three Diplomatic Conferences took place: one on the close of the Vienna Conference, that is, on June 12, 1973. On Trademark Registration Treaty, one on the Protection of that day, they were signed on behalf of the following States: Type Faces, and one on the International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks. The Plenaries of those three (i) the Trademark Registration Treaty was signed on behalf Conferences were presided by Mr. J. P. Crespin (Senegal), of Germany (Federal Republic of), Hungary, Italy, Mo- Mr. J.-P. Palewski (France) and Mr. M. J. Hemmerling (Ger- naco, Portugal, San Marino, the United Kingdom, and man Democratic Republic), respectively. the United States of America; (ii) the Type Faces Agreement was signed on behalf of * This Note has heen prepared by the International Bureau of wIPO. France, Germany (Federal Republic of), Hungary, Italy, 188 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY — JULY 1973 Luxembourg, the Netherlands, San Marino, Switzerland, Mr. Günter Auer, Judge, Federal Ministry of Justice, Vienna the United Kingdom, and Yugoslavia, and the Protocol Mr. Gerhard Stadler, University Assistant, Section for Constitutional Law, Federal Chancellery, Vienna attached to that Agreement on behalf of France, Hun- Mr. Josef Mitterhauser, Secretary, Section for Industrial Property, gary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, San Marino, and Federal Ministry of Trade and Industry, Vienna Switzerland; Miss Else Schöber, Acting Amtsrat, Section for Industrial Property, (iii) the Classification Agreement was signed on behalf of Federal Ministry of Trade and Industry, Vienna Denmark, France, Germany (Federal Republic of), Hun- Miss Maria Tschochner, Amtsoberrevident, Section for Industrial Property, Federal Ministry of Trade and Industry, Vienna gary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Por- Mr. Gerhard Karsch, Referent, Federal Economic Chamber, Vienna tugal, San Marino, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia. All instruments remain open for signature in the Aus- BELGIUM wärtiges Amt (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) of Austria, in Head of Delegation Vienna, until the end of the year 1973. Mr. Richard Huybrecht, Ambassador of Belgium, Vienna Deputy Head of Delegation Mr. René Raux, Director General, Department of Commerce, Ministry List of Participants of Economic Affairs, Brussels I. Member States of WIPO, of the Paris Union, Members of Delegation Mr. Arthur Schurmans, Head, Industrial and Commercial Service, or of the Berne Union Brussels Mr. Jacques Degavre, Administration Secretary, Industrial and ALGERIA Commercial Service, Brussels Mr. Paul Peetermans, Administration Secretary, Industrial and Head of Delegation Commercial Service, Brussels Mr. Hamid Bencherchali, Counsellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Paul-Laurent van Reepinghen, President of the Belgian National Algiers Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and of the Members of Delegation Trademark Commission of the Supreme Council of Industrial Property, Legal Advisor to the Federation of Belgian Enterprises, Mr. Salah Bouzidi, Head of Division, National Office of Industrial Brussels Property, Algiers Mr. Jacques R. M. L. de Montjoye, Secretary of Embassy, Embassy of Mr. Allaoua Mahdi, Director, Central Board, Registry of Commerce, Belgium, Vienna Algiers Mrs. Farida Ait Djebara, Head, Trademark Service, National Office of Industrial Property, Algiers BRAZIL Head of Delegation AUSTRALIA Mr. Miguel Alvaro Ozörio de Almeida, Special Advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brasilia Head of Delegation Mr. Karl Barry Petersson, Commissioner of Patents, Canberra Deputy Head of Delegation Mr. Thomas Thedim Lobo, President, National Institute of Industrial Alternate Property, Brasilia Mr. Eric Murray Haddrick, Principal Legal Officer, Attorney- General's Department, Canberra Members of Delegation Advisor Mr. Zenith Smilgat, Under-Secretary