Article 11
Claim of Priority
(1) Any person wishing to avail himself of the priority of an earlier application shall be
required to attach to his application for registration or to send to the Organization at the latest
three months following the filing date of his application
(a) a written declaration stating the date and number of the earlier application, the
country in which it was filed and the name of the applicant;
(b) a certified true copy of the said earlier application.
(2) The applicant who, in respect of a single application, seeks to avail himself of two
or more rights of priority shall comply with the provisions mentioned above for each of them;
he shall also pay a fee for each priority right claimed and shall produce evidence of payment
of the fee within the three-month period mentioned in paragraph (1) above.
(3) Any priority claim that reaches the Organization more than three months after the
filing of the application shall be declared inadmissible.
Article 12
Unacceptability Due to Non-Payment
No filing shall be acceptable if the application is not accompanied by a document
proving payment of the application fee.
Article 13
Conditions of Acceptability and Filing Date
The Organization shall grant as the filing date the date of receipt of the application for
registration, made on the prescribed form, by the Ministry responsible for industrial property
or by the Organization, provided that, at the time of receipt, the application contains
(a) the requisite information concerning the name and address, nationality and domicile
of the applicant;
(b) signature; in the case of a legal entity, the identity and title of the signatory shall be
specified;
(c) the goods and services to which the mark concerned applies;
(d) information concerning payment of the application fee;
(e) where an agent has been appointed, that fact and the agent’s name and address.
Article 14
Registration of the Mark
(1) For every application for registration of a mark, the Organization shall examine
whether the conditions of form referred to in Articles 8 and 9 of this Annex have been met,
and whether the prescribed fees have been paid.
(2) Any filing that does not conform to the provisions of Article 3(c) and (e) shall be
rejected.
(3) Any application, in respect of which the conditions of form referred to in Article 8,
with the exception of paragraph (1)(b), and in Article 11 have not been observed, is irregular.
The irregularity shall be notified to the applicant or to his agent, who shall be invited to put