Place Created: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Year Created: 1878
Description: The Brazil-U.S. Trade-Mark Agreement of 1878 created a mutal understanding between the United States and Brazil to protect trade-marks in both countries. It ensured that citizens from each nation would have the same legal rights to their trade-marks as local citizens, as long as they complied with the respective country's legal procedures.
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Concluded September 24, 1878;
Ratification advised by Senate January 20, 1879;
Proclaimed June 17, 1879.
The Government of the United States of America and the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, with a view to the reciprocal protection of the marks of manufacture and trade in the two countries, have agreed as follows:
The citizens or subjects of the two High Contracting Parties shall have in the dominions and possessions of the other, the same rights as belong to native citizens or subjects, in everything relating to property in marks of manufacture and trade.
It is understood that any person who desires to obtain the aforesaid protection must fulfill the formalities required by the laws of the respective countries.
In witness whereof the undersigned duly authorized to this end, have signed the present agreement and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.
Done in duplicate at Rio de Janeiro the twenty-fourth day of the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
[SEAL.] B. de VILLA BELLA.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/owenpref.asp
Source: Treaties, Conventions, International Acts and Agreements Between the United States of America and Other Powers 1776-1909, compiled by William M. Malloy, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1910.
Citation: Brazilian-American Diplomacy – Agreement Concerning Trade-Marks; September 24, 1878." Avalon Project, Yale Law School, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/brazil03.asp. Accessed 17 Feb. 2025.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil