Article 1 Abbreviated Expressions

‘Office’ means the agency entrusted by a Contracting Party with the registration of marks;

‘registration’ means the registration of a mark by an Office;

‘application’ means an application for registration;

references to a ‘person’ shall be construed as references to both a natural person and a legal entity;

‘holder’ means the person whom the register of marks shows as the holder of the registration;

‘register of marks’ means the collection of data maintained by an Office, which includes the contents of all registrations and all data recorded in respect of all registrations, irrespective of the medium in which such data are stored;

‘Paris Convention’ means the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed at Paris on March 20, 1883, as revised and amended;

‘Nice Classification’ means the classification established by the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks, signed at Nice on June 15, 1957, as revised and amended;

‘Contracting Party’ means any State or intergovernmental organization party to this Treaty;

references to an ‘instrument of ratification’ shall be construed as including references to instruments of acceptance and approval;

‘Organization’ means the World Intellectual Property Organization;

‘Director General’ means the Director General of the Organization;

‘Regulations’ means the Regulations under this Treaty that are referred to in Article 17.