The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify the deposit by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on March 1, 2023, of the following declaration:
- the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland hereby extends the application of United Kingdom's ratification of the Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks, done at Vienna on June 12, 1973, as amended on October 1, 1985 ("Vienna Agreement") (see Notification Vienna (Classification) No. 35), to the territory of the Isle of Man, for whose international relations the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is responsible. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland hereby also extends to the territory of the Isle of Man its declaration made under the provisions of Article 4(5) of the Agreement that it does not undertake to include the numbers of all or some of the sections in official documents and publications relating to registrations and renewals of marks.
At the request of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the said declaration shall enter into force, with respect to the territory of the Isle of Man, on March 1, 2023.
March 1, 2023