An Act to carry into effect a provision of the Convention of Paris for the Protection of Industrial Property as revised at Lisbon, Portugal, October 31, 1958
PL 87-333 (H.R.5754), enacted 10/03/1961

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PUBLIC LAW 87-333-OCT. 3, 1961 
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district courts, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 56 and 
House Document Numbered 229, Eighty-seventh Congress, $37,850,906, 
together with such amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as 
and when specified in such judgments or provided by law) and such 
additional sums due to increases in rates of exchange as may be neces-
sary to pay claims in foreign currency: Provided^ That no judgment 
herein appropriated for shall be paid until it shall have become final 
and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to 
appeal or otherwise: Provided further, That, unless otherwise specifi-
cally required by law or by the judgment, payment of interest 
wherever appropriated for herein shall not continue for more than 
thirty days after the date of approval of this Act. 
Approved September 30, 1961. 
Public Law 87-333 
October 3, 1961 
[H. R. 5754] 
Patents. 
Foreign applica-
tlons. 
66 Stat. 800. 
AN ACT 
60 Stat. 44 1. 
Effective date. 
To carry into effect a provision of the Convention of Paris for the Protection 
of Industrial Property as revised at Lisbon, Portugal, October 31, 1&58. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and, House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 119 of 
title 35 of the United States Code, entitled "Patents", is amended by 
adding the following paragraph thereto: 
"In like manner and subject to the same conditions and require-
ments, the right provided in this section may be based upon a subse-
quent regularly filed application in the same foreign country instead 
of the first filed foreign application, provided that any foreign appli-
cation filed prior to such subsequent application has been withdrawn, 
abandoned, or otherwise disposed of, without having been laid open 
to public inspection and without leaving any rights outstanding, and 
has not served, nor thereafter shall serve, as a basis for claiming a 
right of priority." 
OEC. 2. Section 44(d) of the Act approved July 5, 1946, Public 
Law 489, Seventy-ninth Congress, chapter 540 (60 Stat. 427; 15 U.S.C. 
1126(d)), is amended by adding the following paragraph thereto: 
"In like manner and subject to the same conditions and require-
ments, the right provided in this section may be based upon a sub-
sequent regularly filed aj)plication in the same foreign country, in-
stead of the first filed foreign application: Provided, That any foreign 
application filed prior to such subsequent application has been with-
drawn, abandoned, or otherwise disposed of, without having been laid 
open to public inspection and without leaving any rights outstanding, 
and has not served, nor thereafter shall serve, as a basis for claiming 
a right of priority." 
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on the date when the Convention 
of Paris for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20,1883, 
as revised at Lisbon, October 31, 1958, comes into force with respect 
to the United States and shall apply only to applications thereafter 
filed in the United States by persons entitled to the benefit of said 
convention, as revised at the time of such filing. 
Approved October 3, 1961.