S.I. No. 28/1928 - The Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (International Convention) Order, 1928.

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks (International Convention) Order, 1928.

2. The

Interpretation Act, 1923

(No. 46 of 1923) applies to the interpretation of this Order in the like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. The provisions of

section 152

of the

Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927

(No. 16 of 1927) shall apply to the several foreign states specified in the Schedule hereto.

JAMES McNEILL,

Governor-General

Dublin.

This 21st day of May, 1928.

SCHEDULE.

Titles in French

Titles in English

Allemagne

Germany

Autriche

Austria

Belgique

Belgium

Brésil

Brazil

Bulgarie

Bulgaria

Cuba

Cuba

Danemark et les Iles Fároë

Denmark and the Faroe Islands

Dantzig (Ville Libre de)

The Free City of Danzig

Dominicaine (Rep.)

The Dominican Republic

Espagne

Spain

Esthonie

Estonia

Etats Unis d'Amérique

The United States of America

Finlande

Finland

France, Algérie et Colonies

France, Algeria and Colonies

Grèce

Greece

Hongrie

Hungary

Italie

Italy

Japon

Japan

Lettonie

Latvia

Luxembourg

Luxemburg

Maroc (à l'exception de la zone

espagnole)

Morocco (with the exception of

the Spanish zone)

Mexique

Mexico

Norvège

Norway

Pays-Bas

The Netherlands

Indes Néerlandaises

The East Indian Colonies of

the Netherlands

Surinam et Curaçoa

Surinam and Curaçoa

Pologne

Poland

Portugal, avec les Açores et Madìre

Portugal, with the Azores and

Madeira

Roumanie

Rumania

Serbie-Croatie-Slovenie

The Serb-Croat-Slovene State

Suède

Sweden

Suisse

Switzerland

Syrie et République Libanaise

Syria and the Republic of

Lebanon

Tchécoslavaquie

Czecho-Slovakia

Tunisie

Tunis

Turquie

Turkey

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1928. No. 28.

THE PATENTS, DESIGNS AND TRADE MARKS (INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION) ORDER, 1928.

WHEREAS by

section 152

of the

Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927

(No. 16 of 1927), provision is made for the mutual protection of inventions, designs, and trade marks as between Saorstát Eireann and any foreign state with the government of which an arrangement binding on Saorstát Eireann has been made for such mutual protection but by sub-section (5) of that section it is enacted that the provisions of that section shall apply only in the case of those foreign states with respect to which the Governor-General by Order made on the advice of the Executive Council declares them to be applicable

AND WHEREAS the foreign states specified in the Schedule hereto are parties to or have acceded to the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property signed at Paris on the 20th day of March, 1883, and revised at Brussels on the 14th day of December, 1900, and at Washington on the 2nd day of June, 1911

AND WHEREAS Saorstát Eireann has acceded to the said International Convention, and it is therefore expedient that the provisions of the said

section 152

of the

Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927

, should be applied to the said foreign states specified in the Schedule hereto

NOW I, JAMES McNEILL, the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, on the advice of the Executive Council, and in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the said sub-section (5) of

section 152

of the

Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927

, and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order and declare as follows, that is to say:—