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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1901.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1901.

CONTENTS.

Costa Rica Trade-mark Convention .. .. .. 389
Complete Specifications accepted .. .. 390
Provisional Specifications accepted .. .. 394
Letters Patent sealed .. .. 395
Letters Patent on which Fees have been paid .. 395
Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent .. 395
Request to amend Specifications allowed .. 395
Applications for Letters Patent abandoned .. 395
Applications for Letters Patent lapsed .. 395
Letters Patent void .. .. 395
Design registered .. .. 395
Applications for Registration of Trade Marks .. 395
Trade Marks registered .. .. 398
Subsequent Proprietors of Trade Marks .. 398

Despatch.—Convention with Costa Rica relative to Trade-marks.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st January, 1901.

THE following despatch and enclosure, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, are published for general information.

JAMES McGOWAN.

(Circular.)

Downing Street, 13th November, 1900.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your government, a copy of a Convention between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Costa Rica for the reciprocal protection of trade-marks and designs, signed at Guatemala on the 5th March, 1898, the ratifications of which were exchanged in London on the 29th September, 1900.

2. I have to call your attention to Article II. of the Convention, from which you will observe that, if it is desired that the stipulations of the Convention should be made applicable to the colony under your government, notice to that effect must be given to the President of the Republic of Costa Rica within one year from the date of the exchange of the ratifications.

3. I have therefore to request that you will be good enough to inform me at your early convenience of the wishes of your Government in the matter.

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF COSTA RICA FOR THE RECIPROCAL PROTECTION OF TRADE-MARKS, ETC.

Signed at Guatemala, 5th March, 1898.—Ratifications exchanged at London, 29th September, 1900.

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Excellency Señor Don Rafael Iglesias, President of the Republic of Costa Rica, desiring to conclude a Convention for the reciprocal protection of trade-marks and designs, have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, George Francis Birt Jenner, Esq., Her Britannic Majesty’s Minister Resident in Central America, &c.; and

His Excellency Señor Don Rafael Iglesias, President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Honourable Señor Don Ricardo Villafranca y Bonilla, Consul-General of the Republic of Costa Rica at Guatemala:

Who, having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:—

ARTICLE I.

The subjects or citizens of each of the contracting parties shall have, in the dominions and possessions of the other, the same rights as are now granted, or may hereafter be granted, to subjects or citizens in all that relates to trade-marks, industrial designs, and patterns.

In order that such rights may be obtained, the formalities required by the laws of the respective countries must be fulfilled.

ARTICLE II.

The stipulations of the present Convention shall be applicable to all the colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, excepting to those hereinafter named—that is to say, except to India, the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand:

Provided always that the stipulations of the present Convention shall be made applicable to any of the above-named colonies or foreign possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been given by Her Majesty’s Representative to the President of the Republic of Costa Rica within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the present Convention.

ARTICLE III.

The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.

It shall come into operation one month after the exchange