'Treaty of Peace with Turkey. Signed at Sévres, August 10, 1920. [With Maps.]' [‎44r] (67/112)

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Article 288.
No action shall be brought and no claim made by persons residing or carrying on
business within the territories of Turkey on the one part and of the Allied Powers on
the other,, or persons who are nationals of such Powers respectively, or by any one
deriving title during the war from such persons, by reason of any action which has taken
place within the territory of the other party between the date of the existence of a state
of war and that of the coming into force of the present Treaty, which might constitute an
infringement of the rights of industrial property or rights of literary and artistic property,
either existing at any time during the war or revived under the provisions of Article 282.
Equally, no action for infringement of industrial, literary or artistic property rights
by such persons shall at any time be permissible in respect of the sale or offering for sale
for a period of one year after the signature of the present Treaty in the territories of the
Allied Powers on the one hand, or Turkey on the other, of products or articles manu
factured, or of literary or artistic works published, during the period between the
existence of a state of war and the signature of the present Treaty, or against those who
have acquired and continue to use them. It is understood, nevertheless, that this
provision shall not apply when the possessor of the rights was domiciled or had an
industrial or commercial establishment in the districts occupied by Turkey during the war.
Article 284.
Licences in respect of industrial, literary or artistic property concluded before the
war between nationals of the Allied Powers or persons residing in their territory or carry
ing on business therein on the one part, and Turkish nationals on the other part, shall be
considered as cancelled as from the date of the existence of a state of war between Turkey
and the Allied Power. But in any case the former beneficiary of a contract of this kind
shall have the right, within a period of six months after the coming into force of the
present Treaty, to demand from the proprietor of the rights the grant of a new licence,
the conditions of which, in default of agreement between the parties, shall be fixed by
the duly qualified tribunal in the country under whose legislation the rights had been
acquired, except in the case of licences held in respect of rights acquired under Turkish
law. In such cases the conditions shall be fixed by the Arbitral Commission referred to
in Article 287. The tribunal or the Commission may, if necessary, fix also the amount
which it may deem just should be paid by reason of the use of the rights during the war.
No licence in respect of industrial, literary or artistic property granted under the
special war legislation of any Allied Power shall be affected by the continued existence
of any licence entered into before the war, but shall remain valid and of full effect, and
a liceffce so granted to the former beneficiary of a licence entered into before the war shall
be considered as substituted for such licence.
Where sums have been paid during the war by virtue of a licence or agreement
concluded before the war in respect of rights of industrial property or for the repro
duction or the representation of literary, dramatic or artistic works, these sums shall be
dealt with in the same manner as other debts or credits of Turkish nationals as provided
by the present Treaty.
Article 285.
The inhabitants of territories detached from Turkey under the present Treaty shall,
notwithstanding this transfer and the change of nationality consequent thereon, continue
to enjoy in Turkey all the rights in industrial, literary and artistic property to which they
were entitled under Turkish legislation at the time of the transfer.
Rights of industrial, literary and artistic property which are in force in the territories
detached from Turkey under the present Treaty at the moment of the transfer, or which
will be re-established or restored in accordance with the provisions of Article 281, shall
be recognised by the State to which the said territory is transferred, and shall remain in
force in that territory for the same period of time given them under the d urkish law.
Article 286.
A special convention shall determine all questions relative to the records,
registers and copies in connection with the protection of industrial, literary or artistic
property, and fix their eventual transmission or communication by the 1 urkish offices to
the offices of the States in favour of which territory is detached from Lurkey.