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Friday, February 27, 2004

WIPO launched new Database on Protection of State Emblems, and Names, Abbreviations and Emblems of International Intergovernmental Organizations.

Article 6ter of the

Paris Convention is applicable to the States party to the Paris Convention as well as to all the Members of the

World Trade Organization (WTO), whether or not party to the said Convention through the

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). The purpose of Article 6ter is to protect armorial bearings, flags and other State emblems of those States and Members identified above, as well as official signs and hallmarks indicating control and warranty adopted by them.

Now WIPO has

launched a new

database for searching all armorial bearings, flags and other State emblems of the States party to the Paris Convention and of the Members of the WTO, as well as the names, abbreviations and other emblems of international intergovernmental organizations which have been the subject of communications by the International Bureau of WIPO to the States party to the Paris Convention.

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