V. Commercial Convention
Section III
Article 12
Turkey undertakes, on condition of reciprocity, to adopt all the necessary
legislative and administrative measures, and to allow access to the Courts in
order to protect goods the produce or manufacture of any one of the other
Contracting Powers from all forms of unfair competition in commercial
transactions.
Turkey undertakes, also on condition of
reciprocity, to prohibit and repress by appropriate remedies the importation,
exportation, manufacture, distribution, sale or offering for sale in her
territory of all goods bearing upon themselves or their get-up or wrappings
any marks, names, devices or descriptions whatsoever which are calculated to
convey, directly or indirectly, false indications of the origin, type nature
or special characteristics of such goods.
Article 13
Turkey undertakes on condition that
reciprocity is accorded in these matters, to respect any law or any
administrative or judicial decision given in conformity with such law in force
in any other Contracting State and duly communicated to her by the proper
authorities, defining or regulating the right to any regional appellation in
respect of products which derive their special qualities from the soil or the
climate, or the conditions under which the use of any such appellation may be
permitted; and the importation, exportation, manufacture, distribution, sale
or offering for sale of products or articles bearing regional appellations
inconsistent with such laws or orders shall be prohibited by Turkey and
repressed by the measures prescribed by article 12.
Article 14
Turkey undertakes, within a period of twelve
months from the coming into force of the present Convention:
1)To accede in the prescribed form to the
International Convention of Paris of the 20th March, 1883, for the
protection of industrial property, revised at Washington on the 2nd
of June, 1911;
2)To accede also to the International
Convention of Berne of the 9th September, 1886, for the protection
of literary and artistic works, revised at Berlin on the 13th
November, 1908, and the additional protocol of Berne of the 20th
March, 1914,relating to the protection of literary and artistic works.
The other Powers signatory to the present
Convention will raise no objection, while it remains in force, to the reserve
which Turkey proposes to make with regard to the provisions of the aforesaid
Conventions and Protocol respecting the right of translation into the Turkish
language, if the other Powers, co-signatories of those Conventions and
Protocol, have not them solves raised any objection to the said reserve during
the year following the coming into force of the present Convention.
In the event of the Powers signatory to the
present Convention not maintaining their adhesion to the Turkish reserve
respecting the rights of translation, Turkey will not be bound to maintain her
adhesion to the Conventions and Protocol mentioned above;
3)Within the same period to recognise and
protect by effective legislation, in accordance with the principles of the
said Conventions, the industrial, literary and artistic property of the
nationals of the other Contracting Powers.
Article 15
Special conventions between the countries
interested shall determine all questions relative to the records, registers
and designs in connection with the services relating to industrial, literary
and artistic property, and their eventual transmission or communication by the
Turkish offices to the offices of the States in favour of which territory is
detached from Turkey.
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