Executive Order 11484—Designating the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI) as a Public International Organization Entitled to Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act, approved December 29, 1945 (59 Stat. 669), and having found that the United States participates in the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI) pursuant to the Convention of Paris for the Protection of Industrial Property of 20th March, 1883, as revised, 13 UST 1, and the joint resolution approved July 12, 1960, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 269f, I hereby designate the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI) as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities conferred by the International Organizations Immunities Act.

The designation of the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI) as a public international organization within the meaning of the International Organizations Immunities Act shall not be deemed to abridge in any respect privileges, exemptions, and immunities which that organization may have acquired or may acquire by treaty or congressional action.

RICHARD NIXON

The White House

September 29, 1969