¹ To facilitate such foreign applications, a great number of countries signed in Paris— in 1883—an International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. This agreement has since been repeatedly revised. It provides, inter alia, that within twelve months of filing an application in any convention country, an inventor may request the date of his application to be taken as the date of an application in another convention country (priority date). The terms of this and other provisions of the Convention have been embodied in the new Israel law, e.g. sec. 10.

² For some obscure reason, notice of objection to an amendment (sec. 67) is the only notice to the Registrar which is not required to be in writing; it follows that it may be given orally, e.g. by phone.

³ (1961) 15 P.D. 1323.