Service Marks

Resolution of the Executive Committee, Rome, Italy, 2-7 May 1960

“Service Marks”

FICPI, the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys, broadly representative of the free profession throughout the world, assembled at its Executive Committee held in Rome, Italy, May 1960, ratified the following Resolution passed at its Rome Congress, from 2 to 7 May 1960:

Considering that Art. 6 sexies of the Lisbon text of the Convention of Union obliges member countries to protect service marks, but without requiring their registration;

Considering that this protection cannot be really effective in the absence of such registration;

Passed the resolution:

That Union countries should at least once take the necessary steps to apply the above Article not only in its obligations but beyond them, by accepting registration of service marks.

Download Resolution