(5) those who have imported or exported products bearing a counterfeit or fraudulently
affixed trademark.”
Article 2: The above‐mentioned Law No. 17‐97 on the Protection of Industrial Property shall
be supplemented by the following articles: 14.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17..3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 148.1,
148.2, 148.3, 148.4, 148.5, 182.1, 182.2, 182.3 and 227.1.
“Article 14.1 – If the deadlines laid down in this Law for operations to file applications for
industrial property titles have not been respected, an application for further treatment in
relation to those operations may be filed by the applicant or his/her representative with the
agency responsible for industrial property within a time period of two months from the date of
expiry of the above‐mentioned deadlines.
Applications for further treatment as referred to in the paragraph above may, however, not
have as their subject the failure to respect a deadline:
‐ for which an application for further treatment has already been filed;
‐ for the payment of prescribed fees for the renewal of a registration of an industrial
design or trademark or for the payment of prescribed fees to ensure that the rights in
a patent remain in force;
‐ relating to opposition proceedings, in accordance with the provisions of Articles 148.2
to 148.5 of this Law;
‐ for the supply of documents attesting to the right of priority referred to in Article 8
above.
An application for further treatment may also be filed by the applicant or his/her
representative in the event of a refusal decision taken by the agency responsible for industrial
property within a time period of two months from the date of that decision.
The application arrangements of the provisions of this Article shall be laid down by regulation.”
“Article 17.1 – By way of derogation from the provisions of (a) of Article 17 above, the term of
protection of the patent shall be extended in accordance with the provisions of the second
paragraph below, if the patent is granted after a period of four years from the filing date of the
patent application with the agency responsible for industrial property, subject to the
provisions of Article 42 below.
The term of extension of the patent shall be equal to the number of days that elapsed
between the expiry date of the four‐year period referred to in the first paragraph above and
the actual date when the patent is granted.
Mention of the extension of the term of protection of the patent shall be recorded in the
national patent register.”