The Director of the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and, in accordance with the provisions of the above Convention, has the honor to notify him that the Government of the United States of America deposited on May 25, 1970, its instrument of ratification dated May 4, 1970, of the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The United States of America have fulfilled the condition set forth in Article 14(2) of the Convention by concurrently ratifying the Stockholm Act of the Paris Convention, with the limitation provided for in Article 20(1)(b)(i) of the said Act to the effect that the ratification shall not apply to Articles 1 to 12.
Pursuant to Article 15(2), the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will enter into force, in respect to the United States of America, three months after the date of the deposit of the instrument of ratification, that is, on August 25, 1970.
June 5, 1970