| CONVENTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA CONCERNING THE PRIORITY OF PATENTS OF INVENTION Ottawa, 30 August 1956 The Government of India and the Government of Canada, Desiring to protect the priority of patents of invention, on a reciprocal. basis,
Have agreed as follows Article I The Government of Canada shall grant to citizens of India and to bodies incorporated or registered in India under any law in force
in India relating to the registration or incorporation of companies or corporations, the benefits of section 29 of the Patents Act,
Chap. 203 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1952, whereby an application for a patent for an invention filed in Canada by any of
these persons who has or whose agent or legal representative has previously regularly filed an application for patent for the same
invention in India shall have the same force and effect as the same application would have if filed in Canada on the date on which
the application for patent for the same invention was first filed in India-provided the application in Canada is filed within twelve
months from the earliest date on which such application war, filed in India. Article II The Government of India shall grant to citizens of Canada, and to bodies incorporated or registered in Canada under any law in force
in Canada relating to the registration or incorporation of companies or corporations, the benefits of section 78A of the Indian Patents
and Designs Act, 1911, whereby an application for a patent for an invention filed in India by any of these persons who has or whose agent or legal representative
has previously regularly filed an application for patent for the same invention in Canada shall have the same force and effect as
the same application would have if filed in India on the date on which the application for a patent for the same invention was first
filed, in Canada-provided the application in India is filed within twelve months from the earliest date on which such application
was filed in Canada. Article III The implementation of these reciprocal arrangements shall be governed by the procedural and other applicable provisions of the legislation
referred to in Articles I and II above. Article IV This Convention shall come into force three months after signature-at which time the appropriate notifications concerning these arrangements
shall have been published respectively in the Canada Gazette and the Gazette of India-and shall be applicable to applications first
filed in India (and claiming a Canadian Priority date) and to applications first filed in Canada (and claiming Indian Priority date)
on or after the date on which the Convention shall come into force. Article V This Convention shall remain in force for a period of one year and thereafter shall continue in force until three months after the
date of a notice of intention to withdraw by either Government. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, duly authorised thereto by their
respective Governments, have signed the present Convention and have affixed thereto their seals. DONE in duplicate in Ottawa the
30th day of August, 1956. For the Government of India Sd/- M.A. RAUF For the Government of Canada Sd/- L.B. PEARSON. HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR INDIA SECRETARY OF MINISTRY FOR OTTAWA. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS CANADA.
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