(5) An appeal from the rejection decision following the application for restoration shall
lie to the High Commission of Appeal with a period of 30 days from the date of notification
of the said decision.
Article 13
Renunciation
The owner of a registered trade name may at any time renounce the trade name by a
written declaration sent to the Organization. The renunciation shall take effect on the date on
which it is entered in the Special Register of Trade Names.
Article 14
Invalidity of Trade Names
(1) The invalidation of the effects of the registration of a trade name on the national
territory of one of the member States shall be pronounced by the civil courts, at the request
either of the Office of the Public Prosecutor or of any interested natural or legal person.
(2) At the request of the interested parties referred to above or of the Organization, the
court shall declare the registration of a trade name invalid if it does not conform to the
provisions of Articles 1, 2 and 5(1) above or conflicts with a prior right; in the latter case,
invalidity may only be pronounced at the request of the owner of the prior right.
(3) When the decision declaring the registration invalid becomes final, it shall be
notified to the Organization, which shall enter it in the Special Register of Trade Names.
(4) Invalidity shall be published in the form laid down in the Implementing Regulations
relating to this Annex. The registration shall be deemed invalid as of the date on which it
took place.
Article 15
Transfer of Trade Names
(1) A trade name may be assigned or transferred only with the trade, industrial, craft or
agricultural establishment, or with the part of such establishment designated under the trade
name.
(2) The assignment of a trade name shall be done in writing and shall require the
signatures of the contracting parties. Transfers by merger of trade, industrial, craft or
agricultural establishments or any other form of succession may be made by any other
document proving such transfer.
(3) The acts referred to in the first paragraph above shall only be enforceable against
third parties if they have been entered in the Special Register of Trade Names kept by the
Organization and published in the form laid down by the Implementing Regulations relating
to this Annex. A copy of such acts shall be kept by the Organization.
Article 16
Legal Action and Penalties
(1) Where the rights attaching to a trade name are threatened with infringement, the
registered owner of such rights may initiate any legal action to prevent such infringement.
(2) In the event of infringement of rights referred to in the preceding paragraph, the
owner of the rights may prohibit continuation and claim payment of damages, as well as any
other sanction provided for in the Civil Code.