The registration of an industrial design shall give rise to the establishment of an
industrial property title known as a “certificate of registration for an industrial design”, filed
and registered in the forms and conditions prescribed in Chapter III of this Title.
113. The following shall not qualify for the protection afforded by this Law: industrial
designs which are contrary to morality or public order as well as industrial designs
reproducing effigies, signs, acronyms, denominations, decorations, emblems and currencies
mentioned in Article 135(a) below, unless the competent authorities have authorized their use.
Chapter III
Procedure for filing and registering industrial designs
114. Any person wishing to obtain a certificate of registration for an industrial design
must file with the entity responsible for industrial property an application for the industrial
design on the conditions provided for in this Chapter. An application may be filed by the
applicant or his agent.
A single application may relate to up to 50 industrial designs, provided that the said
industrial designs are of the same kind.
The application for the industrial design must contain the following on the date of
filing:
(a) a request to file an industrial design mentioning the subject matter of the industrial
design, whose content shall be fixed by regulation;
(b) three copies of a graphic or photographic reproduction of the industrial designs and
the title of the related graphic or photographic reproductions. This reproduction may be
accompanied by a brief description;
(c) proof that the prescribed fees have been paid.
Applications for industrial designs which do not contain the documents referred to in
(a), (b) and (c) above shall not be entertained at the actual time of filing.
The requirements to be met and the documents to be attached to (a), (b) and (c) above
shall be fixed by regulation.
Where the application for an industrial design contains the documents referred to in (a),
(b) and (c) above, the application to file an industrial design, as provided for in (a) above,
shall be entered in chronological order of the filings in the National Register of Industrial
Designs referred to in the first paragraph of Article 126 below, with a filing date and number.
115. If, on the date of filing, the application for an industrial design does not contain
one or more of the documents to be attached to the documents referred to in (a), (b) and (c)
above, the list of which shall be fixed by regulation in accordance with the fifth paragraph of
Article 114 above, the applicant or his agent shall have three months as from the date of filing
to correct the file.
Files corrected within the time period fixed shall retain the date of initial filing.
The time period of three months shall be a clear time period. If the last day is a public
holiday or not a working day, the time period shall be extended until the first following
working day.
116. As soon as the application is filed, the applicant or his agent shall be given a
receipt recording the date on which the documents referred to in the third and fifth paragraphs
of Article 114 above have been provided.
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