Industrial property law

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One key turning point in terms of industrial (and intellectual) property law, as we proceed into the maturation of the Industrial Age, particularly as seen from an international and somewhat patent-focused perspective, is the Convention de Paris pour la protection de la propriété industrielle. This was signed in Paris, France, on 20 March 1883, was one of the first intellectual property treaties. It established a Union for the protection of industrial property. The Convention is currently still in force. The substantive provisions of the Convention fall into three main categories: national treatment, priority right and common rules.[1]

After a diplomatic conference in Paris in 1880, the Convention was signed in 1883 by 11 countries: Belgium, Brazil, France, Guatemala, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, El Salvador, Serbia, Spain and Switzerland. Guatemala, El Salvador and Serbia denounced and reapplied the convention via accession.<

The Treaty was revised at Brussels, Belgium, on 14 December 1900, at Washington, United States, on 2 June 1911, at The Hague, Netherlands, on 6 November 1925, at London, on 2 June 1934, at Lisbon, Portugal, on 31 October 1958, and at Stockholm, Sweden, on 14 July 1967. The Treaty was amended on 28 September 1979.[2]

It may be noted within our data that reference is often made to the laws passed in 1883, and that there is a traceable continuation of this framework up into our own day.

See Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property on English Wikipedia or Convention de Paris pour la protection de la propriété industrielle on French Wikipedia.

The use of the word "industrial", here, as opposed to "intellectual", seems to comport with the overwhelming usage of the times.

Points covered include works on topics such as the delaying effect of wars on patent filing, or granting. Various other specifics will tie into points of national consolidation, and occasional fragmentation, of national states.

Laws, "Conventions", having to do with legally crucial stages in particularly Belgian history, and the publication role played by Ministries, are all pertinent here.

Needless to say, nations such as the United States, Great Britain, Germany and France legislated extensively, with national as well as international proprietary interests in mind. The Belgian data below was found partially by chance, having to do with inter-facility online and analogue data availability. It may be that Belgium, situated as it was, and in a constant state of innovative and proprietary exchange with its larger neighbors, took a greater per volume interest in these matters. A similar principle may have been at play in the case of Luxembourg, another nation known for an extreme interest in "European" interests, as such. At this moment, on the Luxembourgish front, we only have a "Projet de la loi relatif aux brevets d'invention (1878-1880)" along with a few other archival leads.

This page has a temporarily and disproportionately Belgian interface aspect, having to do largely with publications, including treatises on the legal, and other, trajectories of patent filing, with emphases both on the practical and the theoretical. This page may have to be re-structured and-or divided, partially in the interests of the very likely relevance of all the nations we are covering.

Les archives de l’État en Belgique Bibliothèque (This should link to the publications below, which are in the process of being paginated.)

Treatises and Guides and Collections on Patent and Related Law

Requette, François 1922 Traité des droits de timbre d’inscription, de transcription, de greffe, de chancellerie, de la taxe sur les associations sans but lucratif et les établissements d’utilité publique sur les opérations de bourse, sur les brevets d’invention, sur les marques de fabrique et de commerce et sur les examens et complément des traités des droits d’enregistrement, de succession et de la taxe de transmission

Requette, François, Re, Franz 1927 Traité des droits de succession, droits sur les associations sans but lucratif et les établissements d’utilité publique, droits de greffe, droits d’hypothèque, droits sur les brevets et marques de fabrique et de commerce

Schmoll, Is. 1879, Troisième édition Traité pratique des brevets d’invention : Dessins modèles et marques de fabrique noms commerciaux, enseignes et autres désignations d’établissements et produits industriels comprenant la législation étrangère et les traités internationaux

Tillière, Th. 1858, Nouvelle édition Traité théorique et pratique des brevets d’invention de perfectionnement et d’importation et de la contrefaçon industrielle

Tillière, Th. 1854 Traité théorique et pratique des brevets d'invention de perfectionnement et d’importation contenant l’historique des brevets d'invention, une théorie sur les inventions industrielles, les législations étrangères et leur résumé pratique, un commentaire de doctrine et de jurisprudence sur la loi du 24 mai 1854

Van Marcke 1869 Conférence du jeune barreau de Liège, de l’abolition des brevets d'invention : Discours prononcé séance solennelle de rentrée du 9 novembre 1869

Vander Haeghen, Alfred, préface de J. Hamels 1946 Les brevets d’invention touchés par deux guerres : Prolongation, suspension des délais

Varlet, M. 1863 Recueil des lois et règlements en vigueur en Belgique, sur les brevets d’invention, avec des annotations destinées à faire connaître la jurisprudence judiciaire et administrative admise en cette matière : suivi du catalogue des brevets accordés depuis le 1er. octobre 1830, d’un ensemble des arrêts rendus par les cours supérieures de France et de Belgique

Vilain, Jules 1863 Guide pratique des inventeurs brevetés contenant le commentaire de la loi belge, un formulaire des différents actes et le résumé des législations étrangères en matière de brevets d’invention

Francophone Publications on International Patent Law accessed via Hathi Trust

[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010412740 Recueil général de la législation et des traités concernant la propriété industrielle: Brevets d'invention.--Dessins et modèles de fabrique.--Marquis de fabrique et de commerce.--Nom commercial.--Fausses indications de provenance.--Concurrence déloyale.--Usurpation de récompenses industrielles. Publié par le Bureau international de l'Union pour la protection de la propriété industrielle avec le concours de jurisconsultes de divers pays]

(There is a great deal to uncover and integrate here. See "Similar Items" via the above link.)

Industrial Property Legal Data As Compiled And Published By Contemporaneous Belgian Ministries

Ministère de l’Agriculture, de l’Industrie et des Travaux Publics 1884 Convention du 20 mars 1883 pour la protection de la propriété industrielle : mesures d’exécution : Dispositions légales concernant les brevets d’invention, les marques de fabrique et de commerce, les dessins et modèles industriels

Ministère de l’Industrie et du Travail, 1920, Les nouveaus Impôts : Revenus, Successions, Timbre, Enregistrement, Hypothèques, Brevets d’invention

Ministère de l’Industrie et du Travail 1912 Lois et règlements concernant les brevets d’invention, les marques de fabrique ou de commerce, les dessins et modèles industriels : Conventions internationales pour la protection de la propriété industrielle

Ministère de l’Industrie et du Travail, 1893 - 1895, Recueil spécial des brevets d’invention

Ministère de l’Industrie et du Travail, 1898 - 1922, Recueil des brevets d’invention

International Patent Law As Covered And Published By Per Se International Bodies

Le Bureau International de L’Union pour la Protection de la Propriété Industrielle; avec le concours de Jurisconsultes de divers pays 1896-1901 Recueil général de la législation des traités concernant la propriété industrielle : Brevets d’invention, Dessins et modèles de fabrique, Marques de fabriques et de commerce

Notes On Specific Laws

These come up in our data, as fairly standardized inclusions on patent originals, pertinent especially to patents which make international references to predecessors, but also prevalent as nationally legal internal points of reference. There are laws, and articles, and conventions. We will be on this.

References

See also

(Again, the disproportionate role of Belgium, here, may be temporary. The Belgian national page includes references to different publications, on related material, which are also to be found among our publications more generally. Much of this data may be grouped differently as we proceed. A "disproportionate" amount of legally concerned publication may or may not have occurred in Belgium, due to its mid-late imperial status, and its statist evolution geographically and otherwise situated as it was relative to other European powers.)