Any contractual provision that is less favorable to the employee than these provisions shall be
invalid. Any anticipated promise or undertaking by the inventor made to his employer to the
effect that he will waive any remuneration he is entitled to under this article shall be without
legal effect.
The provisions of this article shall apply to public civil servants as well as to persons whose
services are hired in accordance with the Code of Civil, Administrative and Commercial
procedures of Rwanda.
Article 95: Naming the inventor
The inventor shall be named as such in the patent of the industrial design or model unless, in a
special written declaration addressed to the empowered authority, he indicates that he wish
not to be named. Any promise or undertaking to make such a declaration, made with regard to
any person by the inventor, shall have no legal effect.
SECTION 3: APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL
DESIGN OR MODEL
Article 96: Filing the application
The application for registration of an industrial design or model shall be filed with the
empowered authority. The application shall comprise:
1° a request for registration of an industrial design or model;
2° drawings, photographs or other appropriate graphic representations of the subject
incorporating the industrial design or model;
3° the indication of the kind of products for which the industrial design or model is intended
to be used.
The application may be accompanied by a copy of the subject incorporating the industrial
design or model.
The application shall be subject to payment of the prescribed fee.
Where the applicant is not the producer, the request shall be accompanied by a declaration
justifying the right of the applicant to register the industrial design or model.
Two or more industrial designs or models may be the subject of the same application,
provided that they are part of the same class under the international classification or of the
same set or composition of items.
At the time the application is filed, it may contain a request for publication of the industrial
design or model, once registered, to be suspended for a maximum period of twelve (12)
months from the application filing date or, where priority is claimed, from its priority date.