December 2, 2001
OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE TOGOLESE REPUBLIC
- making available to the public, researchers and inventors scientific and technical information
contained in patent documents and other technical publications;
- managing the national technology transfer register;
- representing and defending, alone or in association with other departments or agencies, the
interests of the Togolese Republic and Togolese natural persons or legal entities in the sphere of
industrial property and technology;
- centralizing and coordinating the assistance and training actions of international industrial
property and technology agencies for the benefit of the Togolese Republic.
CHAPTER III: ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONING
Section 1 - Bodies
Article 7 – The bodies of the National Institute of Industrial Property and Technology (INPIT)
shall be as follows:
- Management Board
- Directorate-General
Article 8 – The Management Board shall be the administrative body of INPIT and, as such,
shall:
- provide guidelines for the body;
- implement and monitor the general policy of INPIT;
- adopt the rules of procedure of INPIT and the staff rules and regulations;
- vote on the budget and adopt the accounts drawn up by the Directorate-General;
- adopt the activity reports of INPIT;
- approve the auditors’ report;
- deliberate on all matters submitted to it.
Article 9 – The Management Board shall be composed as follows:
- one representative of the Minister for Industry: President;
- one judge representing the Minister of Justice: member;
- one customs inspector representing the Minister of Finance: member;
- one representative of the Minister of Culture: member;
- one representative of the Minister for Research: member;