1, principle of national treatment
That is to say, the nationals of any member country of the Paris Union can enjoy all kinds of preferential treatment given to the nationals of other member countries of the Union by the present or future national laws in terms of protecting industrial property rights. Nationals of non-member countries also enjoy the same treatment as nationals of member countries if they have residences or real and effective industrial and commercial institutions in the territory of member countries.
2. Priority principle
That is, after the nationals of a member state apply to a contracting state for the first time, they can apply for protection to all contracting States within a certain period of time (12 months for inventions and utility models, and 6 months for designs and trademarks), and the date of the first application is the date of the subsequent application.
3. * * Follow the rules.
In terms of patents, there are mainly provisions such as patent independence, the inventor's signature right in the patent certificate, the conditions for not granting a patent right, granting a compulsory license under certain conditions, and the temporary entry of patented inventions into other countries on ships, planes and means of transportation is not considered as infringement of patent rights. In terms of trademarks, there are mainly provisions on the independence and exception of trademark rights, and trademark registration shall not be affected by the nature of goods, the protection of well-known trademarks, and the prohibition of using them as trademarks.
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Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (hereinafter referred to as "Paris Convention") was signed in Paris on March 20th, 1883 and came into force on July 7th, 1884. The adjustment object of Paris Convention, that is, the scope of protection, is industrial property rights.
Including invention patent right, utility model, industrial design, trademark right, service trademark, manufacturer's name, mark of origin or name of origin, and stopping unfair competition. The basic purpose of the Paris Convention is to ensure that the industrial property rights of one member country are protected in all other member countries.
The original members of the Convention are 65,438+065,438+0. Today, as of July 6, 2022, with Cape Verde's formal accession, the total number of parties to the Convention has reached 179, and China became a member of the Convention on March 9, 1985/kloc-0. In its accession document, the Government of China stated: The people of China *.
Before and after China's accession to the Convention, it also enacted trademark law, patent law, anti-unfair competition law, consumer rights protection law, advertising law and other laws to support it.