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 1488 "Patents." "U. S. Patents." "British Patents." "Foreign Patents." Peat, p. 1491. Classification of information. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [60 STAT. (f) "Patents" shall be deemed to mean those Letters Patent and/or applications therefor covering discoveries or inventions made during the Period of Exchange by the American Participants and/or the British Participants, as well as by their employees or other persons working under their direction, in furtherance of the program of research on the purification, structure, or synthesis of penicillin, or a therapeutic equivalent and subject to the contractual arrangements between said Participants and either the Government of the United States or the Government of the United Kingdom. (g) "United States Patents" shall be deemed to mean all Letters Patent for which applications are made to or which are issued by the Government of the United States. (h) "British Patents" shall be deemed to mean all Letters Patent for which applications are made to or which are issued by the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom. (i) "Foreign Patents" shall be deemed to mean all Letters Patent for which applications are made to or which are issued by Govern- ments other than those of the United States and the United Kingdom. ARTICLE II Exchange of Information (a) Each Government will, during the Period of Exchange, fur- nish to the other Government all information pertaining to the puri- fication, structure, and synthesis of penicillin, and/or a therapeutic equivalent, obtained by it or its Participants during or prior to the said Period of Exchange. This information will be furnished once each month and more often as the discovery of new information may warrant. (b) Each Government will, during the Period of Exchange, trans- mit such information to its own Participants. (c) Neither Government will, during the Period of Exchange, transmit or permit the transmission of, such information to persons who have not conferred upon their respective Government rights and powers with regard to Patents comparable to those conferred upon the Government of the United States by the American Participants, as exemplified in the form of Agreement annexed hereto as "Ap- pendix A". (d) Each Government will, during the Period of Exchange, clas- sify all such information secret. After the Period of Exchange all and any information, whether patented or not, may be published at the desire of either Government, after consultation with the other Government, unless reasons satisfactory to both Governments against such a course are advanced by a Government or by a Participant in respect to any particular item or items of information. (e) Each Government will make provision for maintaining in secrecy during the Period of Exchange any and all applications for Patents filed by its own Participants and will not permit such appli- cations to be filed if secrecy cannot be maintained.

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