It established a Union for the protection of industrial property.

I therefore believe that enhanced protection of industrial property rights, including patents, is essential for European competitiveness.

The European Union really does needs a harmonized and balanced system of legal protection of industrial property.

At the same time, however, it is of crucial importance to guarantee effective legal protection of industrial property throughout the EU.

In 1899, Japan acceded to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.

General exceptions justified on grounds of public morality, public order or public security, protection of life or health of humans, animals or plants, protection of industrial property, intellectual and commercial, among other.

In 1989, the Commission submitted an entirely new proposal for a regulation which excluded social and labour law, fiscal law, law on competition, protection of industrial property rights, insolvency law and industrial constitution law.

Encouraged by these successes, it helped to draw up a large number of bilateral treaties to increase the protection of industrial property between France and Austria, Portugal, the United States, Greece, Peru, Russia, etc.

It means promoting the flow of information, it means that we need an innovative strategy, in which there is a balance between the protection of industrial property and the free dissemination of technical knowledge and free and unhindered competition.

He later served as the President of the American Group of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property, of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association from 1928 to 1929, and of the American Patent Law Association in 1931.

According to Articles 2 and 3 of this treaty, juristic and natural persons who are either national of or domiciled in a state party to the Convention shall, as regards the protection of industrial property, enjoy in all the other countries of the Union, the advantages that their respective laws grant to nationals.