Wednesday, September 12, 2007

SFRC: Treaties Favorably Reported

Yesterday, September 11, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ordered favorably reported the following treaties:
  • The Patent Law Treaty and Regulations Under the Patent Law Treaty, done at Geneva on June 1, 2000, between the Governments of 53 countries including the United States of America (Treaty Doc. 109-12), with one reservation;
  • The Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, adopted in Geneva on July 2, 1999, and signed by the United States on July 6, 1999 (Treaty Doc. 109-21), with nine declarations;
  • The Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks (Treaty Doc. 110-2), with one condition; and
  • The Protocol to the 1951 Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between the United States and Denmark (Treaty Doc. 108-8).