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 the domestic legislation of each state upon its own subjects or citizens.

Persons who are permanently domiciled or have industrial establishments in any one of the contracting states shall, in respect to the rights guarantied by the above article, be regarded as citizens of that state.

Any person, being a citizen or subject of one of the contracting states, who has made an invention in the useful arts, may be granted a patent for the same in any other contracting state in the same manner and under the same conditions as if he were a citizen thereof.

A patent shall not be refused to any person applying for the same in any contracting state, nor, when granted, shall it be vitiated by reason of his having first obtained a patent in his own country, or in any other of the contracting states, nor by reason of the publication of the specification of such patent in accordance with the laws of such state, provided the invention has not been introduced into public use in the country in which application is made for more than two years prior to such application.

Nothing in these articles shall be construed as interfering with the right of any of the contracting states to make the duration of a patent terminate with the expiration of the term of a prior foreign patent for the same invention, nor as absolving the patentee from any obligations imposed upon him by the laws of any country in which he seeks protection.

Contests and disputes regarding the rights of patentees shall be settled by the appropriate tribunals of the respective states, and shall in no case become the subject of diplomatic intervention.

Articles I and II are substantially in the words of the convention for the protection of industrial property signed at