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21 UST 1583. 66 Stat. 797.

Effective dates.

PUBLIC LAW 92-359-JULY 28, 1972

[86 STAT.

the right of priority under this section as applications for patents, subject to the same conditions and requirements of this section as apply to applications for patents, provided such applicants are entitled to the benefits of the Stockholm Revision of the Paris Convention at the time of such filing.'' SEC. 2, Subsection 102(d) of title '^6 of the Lnited States Code is amended to read as follows: " (d) the invention was first patented or caused to be patented, or was the subject of an inventor's certificate, by the applicant or his legal representatives or assigns in a foreign country prior to the date of the application for patent in this country on an application for patent or inventor's certificate filed more than t w e h e months before the filing of the application in the United States, or". SEC. 3. (a) Section 1 of this Act shall take effect on the date when Articles 1-12 of the Paris Convention of March 20, 1883, for the Protection of Industrial Property, as revised at Stockholm, July 14, 1967, come into force with respect to the United States and shall apply only to applications thereafter filed in the United States. (b) Section 2 of this Act shall take effect six months from the date when Articles 1-12 of the Paris Convention of March 20, 1883, for the Protection of Industrial Property, as revised at Stockholm, July 14, 1967, come into force with respect to the United States and shall apply to applications thereafter filed in the United States. Approved July 28, 1972. Public Law 92-359

July 28, 1972 [S. 473]

Automobiles. Labeling requirement, applicability.

AN ACT To amend the Automobile Information Disclosure Ac-t. to make its provisions applicable to the possessions of the United Stat*^s.

Be it enacted by the Setmte (md House of Representatives of the United States of AmeHea in Congress assembled, That subsection 2(h) of the Automobile Information Disclosure Act (72 Stat. 325; 15 U.S.C. 1231) is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following new sentence: "New automobiles delivered to, or for further delivery to, ultimate purchasers within the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Trust Territories of the Pacific, the Canal Zone, Wake Island, Midway Island, Kingman Reef, Johnson Island, or within any other plac/e under the jurisdiction of the United States shall be deemed to have been 'distributed in commerce,'." Approved July 28, 1972.

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