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Statutory Instruments
PATENTS
TRADE MARKS
Made
12th May 1993
Laid before Parliament
24th May 1993
Coming into force
Articles 1, 2, 3(a) and (c) and 4
14th June 1993
Article 3(b)
1st July 1993
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 12th day of May 1993
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
1. This Order may be cited as the Patents and Marks (Convention and Relevant Countries) Order 1993 and shall come into force as respects articles 1, 2, 3(a) and (c) and 4 on 14th June 1993 and as respects article 3(b) on 1st July 1993.
2. Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, the Russian Federation and the Ukraine are convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977.
3. Schedule 1 to the Trade Marks and Service Marks (Relevant Countries) Order 1986 (“the 1986 Order”)(3) shall be amended by:
(a)inserting therein in proper alphabetical order the following countries: Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, the Russian Federation and the Ukraine; and
(b)omitting the reference to Czechoslovakia, and
(c)omitting the references to the German Democratic Republic (and Berlin (East)) and Germany, Federal Republic of (and Berlin (West)), and inserting therein in proper alphabetical order a reference to Germany.
4. Schedule 2 to the 1986 Order shall be amended by omitting the reference to the Federal Republic of Germany (and Berlin (West)) and inserting therein in proper alphabetical order a reference to Germany.
N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Trade Marks and Service Marks (Relevant Countries) Order 1986 to take account of:
(i)the accessions of the countries of Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, the Russian Federation and the Ukraine as such to the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (as revised at Stockholm in 1967) (Cmnd.4431); and
(ii)the unification of the German Democratic Republic into the Federal Republic of Germany.
This Order also declares Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, the Russian Federation and the Ukraine to be convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977.
1938 c. 22; section 39A was added by the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (c. 39), Schedule 2, paragraph 5 and is applied to service marks by the Trade Marks (Amendment) Act 1984 (c. 19), section 1(2) and Schedule 1, paragraph 18c, as respectively substituted and inserted by the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986, section 2(1)(a) and Schedule 2, paragraph 11.
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