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The national laws of most countries are unique to the particular country. However, most industrialized countries are parties to one or more International Conventions which provide for the filing of foreign patent apphcations. For example, pursuant to the Paris Convention, if an appHcation is filed in a second country within one year after filing the appHcation in the first, "home" country, and if certain legal formalities are met, most foreign countries will treat the foreign-filed appHcation under its own laws as if it had been filed on precisely the same date as in the original, home country appHcation. 

Even in countries which are not signatories to either the PCT or various regional conventions provided around the world, patent appHcation examination generally foUows a fairly standard pattern. After the first national, home appHcation is filed, subsequent apphcations may then be filed in other countries, within the 12-month time period if such a grace period is provided. If this grace period is not provided, the patent appHcation(s) which are to be filed in non-Paris Convention Countries have to be filed before any event occurs that may destroy the novelty of the invention. Eurther, under U.S. 

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The idea of punishing war plots and invasions had almost no legal foundation before World War I. Between the two World Wars, the Geneva and Paris Conventions had condemned such acts and in fact declared them generally outlawed. Until the international trial at Numberg, however, none of these declarations had even been tested judicially. 

While participating in the European Union programme on risk assessment of existing chemicals, Euro Chlor (representing all major European chlorine producers), recognised the need to carry out a detailed risk evaluation on chemicals linked to the production of chlorine. In view of concerns about specific risks of organohalogen compounds to the marine environment as a sink for all watercourses, Euro Chlor focused on this environmental compartment, with emphasis on the North Sea. This sea area has been extensively studied and is controlled by the Oslo and Paris Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution (OSPARCOM). For a series of chemicals on lists of concern adopted by the North Sea Conference (1990), risk assessments are being carried out to demonstrate their variable environmental profiles. 

The changes to the London Protocol also led to a revision of the OSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, which is the North-East Atlantic s version of the London Protocol, and which combines the 1972 Oslo Convention on dumping waste at sea and the 1974 Paris Convention on land-based sources of marine pollution. In 2007, the OSPAR Convention also adopted amendments to the Annexes to the Convention to allow the storage of C02 in geological formations under the seabed (www.ospar.org). 

The procedure for obtaining a patent is typically started by filing a national patent application in a patent office of a country which is party to the Paris Convention (an international treaty agreeing certain reciprocal patent rights). This application can provide a so-called priority date for the invention disclosed in this priority application such that the patentability of the invention is assessed as of that date. This priority date can given to further patent applications filed in other Paris Convention territories provided that these further patent applications are filed within 12 months of the first priority application. A patent application must be filed before any public disclosure of the invention since, in most territories, public disclosures before the priority date can be used to attack the novelty and non-obviousness of an invention described in a patent application. 

When seeking patent protection, an inventor typically files a national patent application in his country of residence. Once this first patent application has been filed, the priority year provided for by the Paris Convention starts to run. During the priority year, an inventor will normally continue his work on the invention, for instance, by conducting further experiments. All this material can be used in preparing patent applications to be filed abroad. 

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The most important of these iprs conventions include the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1967) the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1971) the Rome Convention (1961) and the Washington Treaty on ip in Respect of Integrated Circuits (1989). UPOV, initiated by a group of western European countries, is based on the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants signed in Paris in 1961. 

This is the short title for the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. This treaty was first signed in Paris in 1883 by 11 countries and has been revised several times over the years. Today 157 countries have ratified this treaty. A notable country of concern to the pharmaceutical industry that is not a member of the Paris Convention is Taiwan. 

An important feature of the Paris Convention allows applicants to claim priority to their first-filed application in any member country, provided the applicant files a patent application in that country within 1 year. This is referred to as convention priority, and it is of great importance in the patent strategies developed in the pharmaceutical industry, as described below. If the first application meets the conditions of the Convention, the applications in all member countries are treated as if they were filed on the same day as the first application. 

In parallel with the above, about 9-10 months after filing the application, a decision must be made by the Patent Committee about if, where and how to Foreign File the application, which must be done by one year from the filing date if the applicant is to claim the benefit of the Paris Convention (see below). 

The first and most important of these treaties is the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 1883. The Convention allows an applicant to file a patent application in any of the Convention countries and then, no more than one year after the filing, to file corresponding patent applications in any, or all, of the other Convention countries and to claim the benefit of the filing date of said earlier patent application. 

The significance of the Paris Convention cannot be overstated. The first filing date, the priority... 

In 1883, in order to facilitate the transfer of technology, a large number of states created the Paris Convention, an international convention. The Paris Convention, established major basic rules concerning industrial property and was a remarkable piece of legislation for its time. The Convention was revised in subsequent international conferences in Brussels in 1900, Washington in 1911, The Hague in 1925, London in 1934, Lisbon in 1958, and Stockholm in 1967. The main provisions which apply between the member countries are now ... 

In 1978, two treaties came into force which had a great impact on the world patent system unequalled since the Paris Convention of 1883. 

Efifect of priority right. According to the Paris Convention, a person who has filed an earlier application in any state which is party to the Paris Convention may claim for a later filed application for the same invention priority from the date of filing of the earlier application. As a result, the date of filing of the earlier application becomes the effective date of filing of the later application, if this later application is filed in a state party to the Paris Convention. This is also stipulated in Article 87(1) EPC. 

Under the Paris Convention, initial filing can be followed np in other countries where protection is desired. The benefit of the initial early filing date is obtained if applications are filed within a year of this date. So, the choice of countries mnst be decided before knowing the full importance of an invention. 

The filing of a patent application in a single country or with a multicountry patenting organization sets a priority date. This allows the applicant to file an application on the same invention in most other countries under the provisions of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. The Paris Convention gives the applicant a year to file applications in all member countries, claiming an invention disclosed in the... 

In most countries, a public disclosure of an invention before filing a patent application precludes obtaining patent protection for the invention. This is in contrast to the United States, where an applicant has 1 year after publication, public use, or offer of sale of the subject matter of the invention in which to file a patent application. The effect of such a public disclosure is the same whether it is made by the inventor or by another (14). Thus, if patent protection outside the United States is desired, a patent application must be filed in at least one Paris Convention country (see Section 5.1) before the public disclosure, followed by the filing of the corresponding applications in other countries within 1 year. Public disclosure within the convention year does not adversely affect any later filed applications filed within the convention year. 

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