153. Registration of the mark shall confer on its owner a right of ownership over this mark for the goods or services he has designated. 154. It shall be unlawful, unless the owner has given his authorization: (a) to reproduce, use or affix a mark, even with the addition of words such as “formula, type, system, imitation, kind, method”, or to use a reproduced mark, for goods or services which are identical to those covered by the registration; (b) to remove or amend a duly affixed mark. 155. It shall be unlawful, unless authorized by the owner, if this could create confusion in the mind of the public: (a) to reproduce, use or affix a mark, and to use a reproduced mark for goods or services which are similar to those covered by the registration; (b) to imitate a mark and to use an imitated mark, for goods or services which are identical or similar to those covered by the registration. Chapter IV Transfer and loss of rights SECTION I GENERAL PROVISIONS 156. The rights deriving from a registered mark may be transferred either in full or in part. They may be the subject, in full or in part, of the grant of an exclusive or non-exclusive license to work, as well as a pledge. The rights conferred by the registration of the mark may be asserted against a licensee who infringes one of the limits of his license imposed in accordance with the previous paragraph. Subject to the provisions of Article 142 above, transfer of the rights referred to in the first paragraph of this Article shall not infringe the rights acquired by third parties prior to the date of transfer. Acts comprising transfer or a license, referred to in the first two paragraphs above, shall be recorded in writing, on pain of invalidation. 157. To be binding on third parties, any acts transferring, amending or affecting the rights deriving from a registered mark must be entered in a register known as the “National Register of Marks”, kept by the entity responsible for industrial property. However, an act shall be binding prior to such entry on third parties who have acquired the rights after the date of this act with notice of the act when the rights were acquired. Acts amending the ownership of a registered mark or the enjoyment of the rights deriving therefrom, such as assignment, licensing, the making or assignment of an encumbrance or the surrender thereof, seizure, validation and lifting of seizure, shall be entered with the entity responsible for industrial property at the request of one of the parties to the act. For entries of references further to a court decision which has become final, the registrar’s office shall send, within 15 days following the date of said decision, to the entity