An application which has been corrected within the time period set shall retain the date
of initial filing.
The time period of three months shall be a clear time period. Where the last day is a
public holiday or not a working day, the time period shall be extended until the first following
working day.
194. A receipt recording the date of transmission of the documents referred to in the
second and fourth paragraphs of Article 192 above shall be delivered immediately after the
filing of the request or notified to the holder of the industrial award or his agent.
195. Within three months as from the date on which the file for the industrial award is
deposited, the holder of said award or his agent may, upon substantiated request, seek the
correction of mistakes in expression or transcription as well as substantive errors detected
solely in the request for registration provided for under Article 192.2(a) above. No correction
shall be made after the aforegoing time period.
The request for correction mentioned in the previous paragraph shall be submitted in
writing and shall include the changes proposed.
196. Requests for the registration of industrial awards which:
(1) have not been corrected within the three-month time period laid down in Article
193 above;
(2) reproduce the signs referred to in Article 135(a) above;
shall be rejected.
The signs referred to under (2) above may, however, be registered by the entity
responsible for industrial property, if an authorization by the competent authorities can be
produced.
The rejection of any request to register an industrial award must be substantiated and
notified to the applicant or his agent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. A
reference to the rejection shall be recorded in the National Register of Industrial Awards
referred to in the first paragraph of Article 199 below.
197. Where the request to register the industrial award has not been rejected under
Article 196 above, one of the copies of the title to the industrial award referred to in (b) of the
second paragraph of Article 192 above must be returned to the holder or his agent, bearing the
date of its filing with the chronological registration number.
The other copy on which the same references shall be entered shall be kept by the entity
responsible for industrial property.
SECTION III
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
198. Any advertising for an industrial award must indicate the exact nature of the
award, the body which has presented it, and the date on which it is obtained.
199. The entity responsible for industrial property shall keep a special register known
as the “National Register of Industrial Awards” to record all registrations concerning
industrial awards or related operations.
Any interested person may obtain, upon written request, a copy or an excerpt of the
registrations and entries recorded in the National Register of Industrial Awards. However,