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REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA
manual, mechanical or chemical process, whether simple or combined, shall be
deemed to be an industrial design.
Article 17
(Protected industrial designs)
Only new models or industrial designs and those which, although composed of
known elements, produce original combinations that lend their respective subject
matter an overall appearance that has its own characteristics, may be registered.
Article 18
(Unprotected utility models and industrial designs)
The following shall not be protected as utility models or industrial designs:
a) those which, owing to their description and the claims made for them, have
been deemed to be inventions pursuant to this legal instrument;
b) works of sculpture, engraving, painting, architecture, photography,
enameling or embroidery or any other designs of a purely artistic nature;
c) industrial designs contrary to public policy or common decency;
d) those in similar conditions to those provided for in Article 4.
Article 19
(Novelty of an industrial design)
1. An industrial design shall be new if it has not been disclosed by suitable
means in Angola or abroad in such a way that it may be exploited by a person
skilled in the art.
2. An industrial design shall not be deemed to be new if it has already been the
subject of a deposit, even where the deposit is null and void or has lapsed, in
Angola or abroad, or if it has been commonly used or has in any way fallen into
the public domain.
Article 20
(Rights conferred by the registration of an industrial design)
1. The deposit of an industrial design shall confer the right to its exclusive use
throughout Angola by means of the manufacture, sale or exploitation of the
object to which the industrial design is applied.