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placing on sale of copies of the industrial design, or by the use of the mark, and such
acts may not give rise to any third-party right or any right of personal possession.
Article 10
Two or more priorities may be claimed for one patent application, even if they
originate in different countries. Where applicable, two or more priorities may be
claimed for one claim.
Where two or more priorities are claimed, periods that have the priority date as their
starting point shall be calculated as from the earliest priority date.
Where one or more priorities have been claimed for one and the same patent
application, the patent rights shall cover only those elements of the application(s) for
which priority is claimed.
Where certain elements of the invention for which priority has been claimed do not
feature among the claims made in the earlier application, it shall be sufficient, for
priority to be granted, for all the documents constituting the earlier application to
disclose those elements in a precise manner.
Article 11
Failure to comply with the time periods and formalities provided for in Articles 7 and 8
above shall lead to the loss of the benefit of the right of priority in Djibouti.
Article 12
Invention patents, certificates of addition deriving from a main patent, industrial
designs and factory marks, trademarks or service marks, filed with the benefit of the
priority, shall enjoy a term of protection equal to the one laid down for filings made
without claims of priority.
Article 13
Invention patents, certificates of addition deriving from a main patent, layout designs
(topographies) for integrated circuits, industrial designs and factory marks,
trademarks or service marks shall be entirely independent from the titles obtained in
one of the countries of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial
Property, for the same purpose, in terms of both the grounds for invalidity or
revocation and the term of protection.
Article 14
All operations to file applications for industrial property titles as well as all actions
affecting such titles shall be entered in the registers kept to this end by the Djibouti
Office of Industrial and Commercial Property. The list and contents of these registers,
which said entity shall keep indefinitely, shall be fixed by regulation.
The Djibouti Office of Industrial and Commercial Property shall keep the originals or
reproductions of the documents in the applications for industrial property titles for a
period of 10 years after the related rights have expired.