(i) a description showing by what configuration, arrangement or component device the
utility model may be useful for the work or purpose for which it is intended; that description
shall be set out clearly and completely so that a person having ordinary knowledge and skill in
the art could produce the said model,
(ii) the drawings and photographs necessary or useful for the understanding of the
description,
(iii) a descriptive abstract summarizing the contents of the description,
(iv) the claim or claims defining the scope of the protection sought, which shall not go
beyond the contents of the description referred to in subparagraph (i) above.
(2) The above documents shall be in one of the working languages of the Organization.
Article 12
Unity of the Utility Model
The application shall be restricted to a single principal subject, with the details that
constitute it and the uses specified. It shall contain no restrictions, conditions or reservations.
It shall have a title that describes in a succinct and precise manner the purpose of the
invention.
Article 13
Claim of Priority
(1) Any person wishing to avail himself of the priority of an earlier application shall be
required to attach to his application for registration or to send to the Organization at the latest
six months following the filing date of his application
(a) a written declaration stating the date and number of the earlier application, the
country in which it was filed and the name of the applicant;
(b) a certified true copy of the said earlier application;
(c) if he is not the person who filed the earlier application, a written authorization from
the applicant or his successors in title authorizing him to avail himself of the priority in
question.
(2) The applicant who, in respect of a single application, seeks to avail himself of two
or more rights of priority shall comply with the provisions mentioned above for each of them;
he shall also pay a fee for each priority right claimed and shall produce evidence of payment
of the fee within the six-month period mentioned above.
(3) Failure to present any one of the documents mentioned above within the time limit
shall automatically entail, for the application under consideration, loss of the benefit of the
priority right claimed.
(4) Any document that reaches the Organization more than six months after the filing
of the application for registration shall be declared inadmissible.
Article 14
Conversion of a Patent Application
into an Application for Registration
of a Utility Model and Vice Versa
(1)(a) At any time prior to the grant of a patent or the rejection of his patent
application, a patent applicant may, after payment of the prescribed fee, convert his