The Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol, also known as the Nairobi Treaty, was adopted in 1981. All countries that are party to the Nairobi Treaty are obliged to protect the Olympic emblem and prevent its use for commercial purposes (such as in advertisements, on goods, as a trademark, etc.) without the permission of the International Olympic Committee.
An important function of this treaty is that if the International Olympic Committee authorizes a contracting party to this Treaty to use the Olympic emblem, the National Olympic Committee of that country has the right to share in any income obtained by the International Olympic Committee from granting such permission.
This treaty is open to any member state of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Paris Convention, the United Nations or any specialized agency established in relationship with the United Nations. Instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession must be deposited with the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization.
The Washington Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits, referred to as the Washington Convention or the Integrated Circuit Treaty, was signed in Washington on May 26, 1989.
The Washington Convention has a total of 20 articles. Its main contents include the establishment of the Union, definitions, the object of the treaty, the legal form of protection, national treatment, scope of protection, implementation, registration, disclosure, conferences, international bureaus, amendments, guarantees of the Paris Convention and the Berne Convention, reservations, dispute settlement, participation, entry into force, withdrawal, texts, depositaries, and signatures. The convention clearly stipulates that “integrated circuit” means a product that, in its final or intermediate form, is a collection of multiple components, at least one of which is an active component, and some or all of the interconnections in and/or on a piece of material to perform a certain electronic function. “Layout design (topology)” refers to a three-dimensional configuration of multiple components in an integrated circuit, at least one of which is an active component, and some or all of its integrated circuit interconnections, or refers to such a three-dimensional configuration prepared for the manufacture of integrated circuits.
The Washington Convention stipulates that member states should implement registration protection for integrated circuit layout designs. Registration applications do not need to be novel. The owner of the integrated circuit layout design can submit an application within two years after the product is put into commercial use. The protection period is at least 10 years. In addition to “originality” and “non-generality”, the conditions for protection also include “limited expressions that are not just related functions.” The convention also stipulates national treatment, that is, each member state can only require the nationals or residents of other member states to perform the same procedures as their own nationals and give the same protection. This is different from the national treatment in copyright conventions, but similar to the Paris Convention. However, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights stipulates that its members must comply with Articles 2 to 7, Article 12 and part of Article 16 of the treaty.
my country signed the treaty on May 1, 1990.