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ORGANIZATIONIP/N/1/HTI/1
12 November 1999
(99-4885)
Council for Trade-Related Aspects
of Intellectual Property RightsOriginal:  French
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER
ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT
HAITI
In a communication from its Permanent Mission, dated 8 October 1998, Haiti has sent the
Secretariat the following communication.
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In accordance with Articles 3, 4 and 5 combined with Article 63.2 of the TRIPS Agreement
and the Decision of the Council for TRIPS of 21 No vember 1995 (IP/C/2), the Ministry of Trade and
Industry has the honour to notify the WTO of the following:
- The Decree of 9 January 1968 on copyright on literary, scientific and artistic works
grants nationals of a State bound by the same international conventions as Haiti
treatment identical to that granted to Haitian nationals;
- the Law of 17 July 1954 on trademarks, as amended by the Law of 15 July 1956 and
the Decree of 28 August 1960, grants the same treatment to nationals of States bound
by the Washington Convention, the Agreement of 14 April 1891 and Union countries,
as that granted to Haitian nationals;
- the Law of 14 December 1922 on patents of invention and industrial designs does not
distinguish between nationals and foreigners;
- the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization;- the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, of 20 March 1883,
accession to the Stockholm Act (1967), effective 3 November 1983;
- the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works;- the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their
International Registration, of 31 October 1958;
- the Convention on the Protection of Patents and Designs, concluded on
20 August 1910 in Buenos Aires;
- the 1923 Santiago de Chile Convention for the Protection of Trademarks,
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- the 1929 Washington General Inter-American Convention for Trademark and
Commercial Protection.
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