{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-marks-convention-and-relevant-countries-order-1993/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-marks-convention-and-relevant-countries-order-1993/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1258",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents and Marks (Convention and Relevant Countries) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-marks-convention-and-relevant-countries-order-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Trade Marks and Service Marks (Relevant Countries) Order 1986 to take account of:\n(i) the accessions of the countries of Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, the Russian Federation and the Ukraine as such to the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (as revised at Stockholm in 1967) (Cmnd.4431); and\n(ii) the unification of the German Democratic Republic into the Federal Republic of Germany.\nThis Order also declares Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, the Russian Federation and the Ukraine to be convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1258/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:56:43.775250+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}