“Berne Convention of 1971” refers to the Paris Act of this Convention of 24 July 1971.
“Board” means the Board of Directors.
“Broadcasting” means the transmission by wireless means for public reception of sounds or of images and
sounds or of the representations thereof, including transmission by satellite; it includes transmission of
encrypted signals where the means for decrypting are provided to the public by the broadcaster or with the
broadcaster‟s consent.
“Budapest Treaty” means the Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms
for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, done at Budapest on April 28, 1977, as amended.
“Business identifier” means any distinctive sign and shall include any mark, business symbol, trade name
or emblem used by an enterprise to convey, in the course of industrial or commercial activities, a
particular commercial identity or commercial origin with respect to an enterprise or the products produced
or the services rendered by that enterprise.
“Certification mark” means a sign that is used to indicate that specified standards or characteristics,
including quality, origin or method of production, have been complied with in respect of goods or services
as certified by or under the control of the holder of the registration of the mark.
“Collective mark” means any mark that belongs to a collective organization such as a cooperative, an
association or a federation of industries, producers or traders.
“Collective work” means a work which has been created by two or more natural persons at the initiative
and under the direction of a natural person or legal entity with the understanding that it will be disclosed
by the latter person or entity under his or its own name and that the identity of the contributing natural
persons will not be indicated in the work.
“Communication to the public” means the transmission by any means, other than by broadcasting, of
images or sounds or both of a work, a performance or a sound recording in such a way that the images or
sounds can be perceived by persons outside the normal circle of a family and its closest social
acquaintances at a place or places so distant from the place where the transmission originates that, without
the transmission, the images or sounds would not be perceivable, irrespective of whether the person can
receive images or sounds at the same place and time, or at different places or times individually chosen by
them.
“Common Regulations” means the Common Regulations under the Madrid Agreement and the Madrid
Protocol.”
“Compilation” means a work formed by the collection and assembling of pre-existing materials or of data
that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an
original work of authorship.
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