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Article 50
Patents granted shall be published in the Official Gazette referred to in Article 88
below.
Chapter III
Rights deriving from invention patents
Section I Exclusive right to work
Article 51
An invention patent shall confer on its holder the exclusive right to work the patented
invention by means of acts referred to in Articles 53 and 54.
Article 52
The scope of the protection granted by the patent shall be determined by the wording
of the claims. However, the description and the drawings may be of use for the
interpretation of the claims.
If the subject matter of the patent relates to a process, the protection granted by the
patent shall extend to the goods obtained directly by means of this process.
Article 53
The following acts shall be prohibited to third parties without the patent owner’s
consent:
((a) the manufacture, use, offering for sale, sale or importation for those purposes, of
the good to which the patent relates;
((b) the use of a process which is the subject matter of the patent and, the use,
offering for sale, sale or the importation, for those purposes, of the good obtained
directly through such a process.
Article 54
It shall also be prohibited, without the patent owner’s consent, to deliver or offer to
deliver, on Djiboutian territory, to a person other than the one entitled to work the
patented invention, the means for the implementation, on Djiboutian territory, of this
invention relating to an essential element thereof, where the third party knows, or it is
obvious in the circumstances, that these means are suitable and intended for such
implementation.