September 17, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



383 



Section XI. — 



1. " That the committees of the various coun- 

 tries party to the International Convention for 

 the Protection of Industrial Property be requested 

 to consider the desirability of adopting the follow- 

 ing provision : ' The manufacture in one country 

 of the ujiion protects the patentee against the 

 revocation of his patent in all countries of the 

 union.' " 



2. " The section recommends the question raised 

 by M. de Laire's paper on ' The International 

 Patent ' to the attention of the International As- 

 sociation for the Protection of Industrial Property 

 and to the national committees for study with a 

 view to future congresses." 



3. " That international committees be appointed 

 representative of all the nations party to the 

 Congress to consider and draft proposals for joint 

 international patent and trade mark legislation, 

 with a view to international uniformity, such 

 proposals to be laid before the congress of 1912 

 for discussion and further action." 



4. " That the congress deprecates any patent 

 legislation limiting the patentability of pharma- 

 ceutical products." 



5. " To commit the question of international 

 acknowledgment of the right of prior use within 

 the states adhering to the International Conven- 

 tion to the International Association for the Pro- 

 tection of Industrial Property for further consid- 

 eration." 



6. " That the congress expresses the wish that 

 there should be created an ' international depSt 

 de plis cachetes.' " 



7. "That it is necessary that a fancy name 

 designating a medicinal compound of definite com- 

 position should be protected as a trade mark as 

 securely as such a name applied to a secret rem- 

 edy or a remedy of indefinite composition." 



8. " It is desirable that all manufacturing coun- 

 tries, notably Germany, Great Britain and the 

 United States, adhere to the Madrid Convention 

 concerning international trade-mark registration, 

 and that this arrangement should be raised at the 

 next conference in the sense that: (a) registra- 

 tion of a trade mark at the Berne Bureau should 

 only have a formal effect; (6) that the deposit 

 at the Berne Bureau be independent of registra- 

 tion in the country of origin." 



9. " That an international commission be ap- 

 pointed for the study of technical rules defining 

 requisites, to which should correspond the prin- 



cipal chemical products commercially known as 

 commercial products." 



10. " That the work of this commission should 

 be considered as part of the work of the Congress 

 of Applied Chemistry." 



11. "That a subsection dealing with the chem- 

 istry of petroleum should, in the future, be a sub- 

 section of the congress." 



12. " That an international commission be ap- 

 pointed to establish uniformity in the control of 

 the escape of noxious gases." 



13. "That each succeeding Congress of Applied 

 Chemistry do examine and report upon the prog- 

 ress and position of chemical industry in each of 

 the countries party to the congress, having par- 

 ticular regard to the country in which the con- 

 gress is for the time being held, and to the rela- 

 tion between the development of chemical industry 

 and customs' tariffs." 



Monsieur Lindet proposed that the Interna- 

 tional Commission on Analyses be continued with 

 a grant of 2,000 frs. It was approved. 



The Hon. Whitelaw Reid, the American Am- 

 bassador, at the request of the American delegates, 

 presented the official invitation of the government 

 to hold the eighth congress in 1912 in this country. 

 After reading and submitting the instructions of 

 the Secretary of State, the Hon. P. C. Knox, to 

 the American commissioners, Mr. Reid made a 

 most felicitous speech, insisting upon the accept- 

 ance of the invitation. There were reasons why 

 the delegates to that congress should feel at home 

 in the United States. One large section of that 

 great country was called New England. There 

 were many large sections of it wliich might prop- 

 erly be called New Ireland. (Laughter.) Cer- 

 tainly the people in those sections had shown 

 great capacity for self-government and for govern- 

 ing the Americans. (Laughter.) Tliere were also 

 many sections which might properly be called 

 New Germany, and a whole region in the north- 

 west that might be called New Sweden and Nor- 

 way. The historic claims of the Dutch in America 

 were commemorated in New Amsterdam, and the 

 Italians, who discovered the country, would find 

 many of their countrj'men still there to welcome 

 them. (Cheers.) The delegates, if tliey accepted 

 his invitation, would go next to a country which 

 looked especially on the work of science as, above 

 all, tending to promote happiness and diffuse 

 peace among tlie nations of the earth. (Cheers.) 



Dr. Wiley, of the Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, seconded the invitation, and said that 



