3. Any industrialist, producer or merchant who is a subject of a state dealing with Libya on a basis of reciprocity or is a resident thereof or has an actual place of business therein. 4. Associations or groups of industrialists or producers or merchants established in Libya or in any of the aforementioned states provided that they may be considered entitled to corporate existence. 5. Public departments Article (5) The following shall not be entitled to registration as trademarks or elements thereof: a. Marks having no distinctive signs of authenticity or consisting of signs or titles which are by custom assigned to the products themselves or to any ordinary drawing or pictures thereof. b. Any amendment, design or sign which is inconsistent with good morals or public order. c. Public emblems and imitations thereof, flags and other symbols of the state or of any other state dealing with Libya on a basis of reciprocity. d. Official signs and stamps used by the aforesaid states for the control or security of goods where the trademark containing such signs or stamps is intended for use on goods of the same or a similar kind. e. Marks which are identical with or similar to symbols of purely a religious character. f. Symbols of the Red Crescent or the Red Cross or other similar symbols and marks which are mere imitations thereof. h. Pictures or mottos of any other person unless the use thereof is approved by him. i. Descriptions of honorary titles to which the applicant can not prove his legal title. j. Marks which may mislead the public or which contain any mis-statements about the origin or description of the products, likewise marks which contain a fictitious imitative or forged commercial name. Part II Proceedings Of Registration Article (6) Applications for the registration of trademarks shall be submitted to the trademarks office subject to the methods and conditions provided for under the implementing regulations of this law. Article (7) Trademarks may be registered only for one or more of the items or products as fixed under the implementing regulations of this Law. Article (8) Where two persons or more apply at the same time for the registration of the same or nearly identical trademarks in respect of the same item of products, such application shall be rejected until one of them submits a duly authenticated deed of relinquishment from the other disputants or a res judicata judgement in his favour. Article (9) The Trademarks Registration Office shall, where necessary, reject the registration of any trademarks or modification thereof, in order to define such marks and render them clearly and more distinctive for the purpose of avoiding misconception or mistaking them for other previously registered marks. In the event of rejection or qualified acceptance the office shall notify the applicant by registered mail of the grounds for its decision and the facts relating thereto. The applicant shall be deemed to have relinquished his claim where he fails, within a period of six months to fulfil the conditions required by the office. Article (10)