The provisions of Articles 960 to 981 of the DOC shall not apply to joint ownership of
an application for a certificate or of a certificate.
Article 37
The joint owner of an application for a certificate or of a certificate may notify the other
joint owners that he relinquishes his share in their favor. Once the relinquishment has been
entered in the National Register of Plant Variety Certificates or, in the case of an unpublished
application for a certificate, as from its notification to the Competent Office, such joint owner
shall be relieved of all obligations towards the other joint owners. The latter shall divide the
relinquished share between them in proportion to their rights in the joint property, except
where otherwise agreed.
Article 38
The provisions of Articles 35 to 37 above shall apply in the absence of any agreement to
the contrary.
The joint owners may derogate therefrom at any time by means of a joint ownership
agreement.
CHAPTER VI
FILING OF APPLICATIONS FOR PLANT
VARIETY CERTIFICATES
Article 39
Applications for plant variety certificates shall be filed with the Competent Office in the
form and subject to the conditions laid down by regulation.
Natural and legal persons not having a place of residence or a registered office in
Morocco shall be required to appoint a representative having a place of residence or a
registered office in Morocco.
Except as otherwise stipulated, the power of attorney of the representative appointed in
accordance with the preceding paragraph shall extend to all acts that relate to exercise of the
breeders’ right and to receipt of all notifications referred to in this Law, with the exception of
withdrawal of the application for a plant variety certificate or renunciation in whole or in part
of the rights deriving from such certificate.
Article 40
The benefit of the filing date of the application shall be acquired if all elements required
by regulation in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 39 above have been furnished
on filing and if the fees for services rendered established in accordance with Article 60 of this
Law have been paid.