The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and, in accordance with the provisions of the Stockholm Act (1967) of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883, has the honor to notify him that the Government of Japan, referring to the deposit, made on January 20, 1975, and notified on January 24, 1975 (Paris Notification No. 65), of its instrument of ratification of the said Convention, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, with a declaration to the effect that its ratification shall not apply to Articles 1 to 12, deposited, on June 20, 1975, a declaration by which it extends the effects of its ratification to the said Articles as from October 1, 1975.
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 20(2)(c) and (3) of the Stockholm Act of the said Convention, Articles 13 to 30 entered into force, with respect to Japan, on April 24, 1975.
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 20(2)(c) of the said Act, Articles 1 to 12 will enter into force, with respect to Japan, on the date indicated in the declaration deposited, that is, on October 1, 1975.
June 27, 1975