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MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS, 1776–1917
    • Mr. Morio Nakamatsu, Director of the Patent Office;
  • The President of the United States of Mexico:
    • Mr. José de las Fuentes, Engineer, Director of the Patent Office;
  • His Majesty the King of Norway:
    • Mr. L. Aubert, Secretary of the Legation of His Majesty the King of Norway at Washington;
  • Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands:
    • Dr. F. W. J. G. Snyder van Wissenkerke, Director of the Office of Industrial Property, Counselor at the Ministry of Justice;
  • The President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Portugal:
    • His Excellency Viscount de Alte, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Portugal at Washington;
  • His Majesty the King of Servia:
  • His Majesty the King of Sweden:
    • His Excellency Count Albert Ehrensvárd, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington;
  • The Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation:
    • His Excellency Paul Ritter, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Switzerland at Washington;
    • Mr. W. Kraft, attached to the Federal Bureau of Intellectual Property at Bern;
    • Mr. Henri Martin, Secretary of the Legation of Switzerland at Washington;
  • The President of the French Republic, for Tunis:
    • Mr. de Peretti de la Rocca, First Secretary of the Embassy of the French Republic at Washington;

Who, after having been given their full respective powers, made in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

Article 1

The contracting countries constitute a state of Union for the protection of industrial property.

Article 2

The subjects or citizens of each of the contracting countries shall enjoy, in all the other countries of the Union, with regard to patents of invention, models of utility, industrial designs or models, trademarks, trade names, the statements of place of origin, suppression of unfair competition, the advantages which the respective laws now grant or may hereafter grant to the citizens of that country. Consequently, they shall have the same protection as the latter and the same legal remedies against any infringements of their