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PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
  • Additional act signed at Brussels December 14, 1900
  • Senate advice and consent to ratification March 7, 1901
  • Ratified by the President of the United States April 16, 1901
  • Ratifications deposited at Brussels May 3, 1901
  • Proclaimed by the President of the United States August 25, 1902
  • Entered into force September 14, 1902[1]
  • 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]
32 Stat. 1936; Treaty Series 411

[TRANSLATION]

Additional Act of December 14, 1900, Modifying the Convention of
March 20, 1883, as well as the Final Protocol Thereto Annexed

His Majesty the King of the Belgians; The President of the United States of Brazil; His Majesty the King of Denmark; The President of the Dominican Republic; His Majesty the King of Spain, and in his name, Her Majesty the Queen Regent of the Kingdom; The President of the United States of America; The President of the French Republic; Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; His Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves; His Majesty the King of Servia; His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway; The Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation; The Government of Tunis, having deemed it useful to make certain modifications and additions to the International Convention of March 20, 1883,[4] as well as to the Final Protocol annexed to said Convention, have named for their Plenipotentiaries the following:


  1. Three months from June 14, 1902, date of procès-verbal of deposit of ratifications, closing the record of deposit in accordance with art. 3 (for French text of procès-verbal. see British and Foreign State Papers, vol. 92, p. 808).
  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.
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