The empowered authority is responsible for:
1° granting authentic industrial property titles provided by this Law;
2° carrying out all tasks provided by this Law including the registration of applications for
titles of intellectual property, publishing, calculating and extending their deadlines and
duration, and managing all related matters.
3° promoting the spirit of creativity and technological innovation for nationals of the
Republic of Rwanda and any person who owns an effective and serious industrial or
commercial institution;
4° encouraging the inventive activity and creation of new technologies and their industrial or
commercial use, in the Republic of Rwanda, so as to promote economic growth and
improvement of the life conditions of Rwandan people;
5° providing economic operators, industrialists, researchers and the general public with
technical information services on patents, utility models and other technical matters in
order to facilitate the evaluation, selection, acquisition and assimilation of foreign and
domestic technologies by industrial companies and research institutions located in the
Republic of Rwanda;
6° increasing national technological capacity by strengthening national powers in the
negotiation and conclusion of industrial property and technology transfer license
agreements;
7° guaranteeing the free and honest exercise of industrial and commercial activities through
the prevention and elimination of acts of unfair competition in relation to industrial
property.
8° to assure a better utilization, a free and fair economic use of works;
9°
to assure equitable remuneration and a just distribution of dividends arising from use of
works;
10° to develop and promote cultural industry and printing industry in Rwanda.
11° to monitor activities of private institutions that manage jointly copyrights and related
rights;
12° to arbitrate all disputes arising from intellectual property.