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Mr. S. Harbinson (Hong Kong)
United States of America
C.1.v Article 63.2 concerning notifications pursuant to TRIPS obligations stemming from the provisions of Article 6ter of the Paris Convention
57. The representative of the United States said that there was a rôle to be played by WIPO in this context, given the existing collection of notifications made under Article 6ter by member states of the Paris Convention, including the reactions to those notifications that had been made by other member states. However, the problem remained that the provisions of Article 6ter would be extended under the TRIPS Agreement to other countries that were not members of the Paris Convention. Any action under Article 6ter by WTO Members in the latter category could not simply be left to the WIPO alone.
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