The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to inform His Excellency that the following amendments to the Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification of March 24, 1971, entered into force on February 25, 1982:
- in Article 7(2)(a)(iv), "triennial" is replaced by "biennial" and
- in Article 7(4)(a), "third"' is replaced by "second."
The said amendments were unanimously adopted by the Assembly of the Union for the International Patent Classification (IPC Union) on October 2, 1979 (see document AB/X/32, paragraph 33). The said amendments were reproduced in document AB/X/5, Annex I, and were communicated to the States concerned by Note C.N. 563 of November 14, 1979, as modified by Note C.N. 576 of January 31, 1980.
The entry into force of the said amendments was brought about upon the receipt by the Director General of notifications of acceptance of those amendments by the required number of the States members of the Assembly of the IPC Union at the time the said Assembly adopted those amendments. The said notifications of acceptance were received, in chronological order, from the following twenty-one States, the date of receipt being indicated after each State: Germany (Federal Republic of) (December 11, 1979), Norway (December 14, 1979), Denmark (December 24, 1979), Ireland (January 4, 1980), Sweden (January 9, 1980), Spain (January 17, 1980), Monaco (January 23, 1980), France (January 31, 1980), Brazil (February 8, 1980), Italy (February 26, 1980), Suriname (March 3, 1980), Czechoslovakia (April 15, 1980), United States of America (June 2, 1980), Switzerland (July 3, 1980), Luxembourg (October 3, 1980), United Kingdom (November 4, 1980), Portugal (December 15, 1980), Soviet Union (October 30, 1981), Australia (November 13, 1981), Israel (November 25, 1981), Egypt (January 25, 1982).
The said amendments bind all the States members of the said Assembly at the time those amendments entered into force, that is, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, German Democratic Republic, Germany (Federal Republic of), Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Soviet Union, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America (27), and will bind all other States that became or become members of that Assembly subsequent to their date of entry into force (see Article 11(3) (b) and (c) of the afore-mentioned Agreement). At the date of the present notification there are no such other States.
July 11, 1983