The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed in Paris, France, on March 20, 1883, is an important and one of the first intellectual propertytreaties. Thanks to this treaty, intellectual property systems, including patents, of any contracting state are accessible to the nationals of other states party to the Convention.
The right of priority or priority right is also established by this treaty: it provides that an applicant from one contracting State shall be able to use its first filing date (in one of the contracting State) as the effective filing date in another contracting State, provided that he files another application within 6 (for industrial designs and trademarks) or 12 months (for patents and utility models) from the first filing.
The Convention has now about 164 country members, which makes it one of the most widely adopted (or maybe the most adopted) treaty worldwide (though Taiwan is not party of the Convention).
Guide to the Application of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property As Revised at Stockholm in 1967, G.H.C. Bodenhausen, (World Intellectual Property; February 1, 1968) ISBN 92-805-0368-5
External links
Paris Convention page on the WIPO web site (http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/paris/index.html)
Haberman v Comptroller (http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2003/430.html): an interesting and well-written decision that helps to understand the concept of priority.
The ParisConvention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed in Paris, France, on March 20, 1883, is an important and one of the first intellectual property treaties.
After a diplomatic conference in Paris in 1880, the Convention was signed in 1883 by 11 countries: Belgium, Brazil, France, Guatemala, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Salvador, Serbia, Spain and Switzerland.
The Convention now has 169 contracting member countries, which makes it one of the most widely adopted treaties worldwide (though Taiwan is not party of the Convention).
During the insurrection of 10 August 1792, when the populace of Paris stormed the Tuileries and demanded the abolition of the monarchy, the Legislative Assembly decreed the provisional suspension of King Louis XVI and the convocation of a "national convention" which should draw up a constitution.
At the same time it was decided that the deputies to that convention should be elected by all Frenchmen 25 years old or more, domiciled for a year and living by the product of their labour.
The Convention held its first session in a hall of the Tuileries, then it sat in the Salle du Manège, and finally from 10 May 1793 in that of the Spectacles (or Machine), an immense hall in which the deputies were but loosely scattered.
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