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Only industrial designs which have been duly filed and registered by the Djibouti
Office of Industrial and Commercial Property shall qualify for the protection granted
by this Law, as from the date of filing.
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.
Article 112
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 acronyms, denominations, decorations, emblems and currencies
mentioned in Article 134((a) below, unless the competent authorities have authorized
their use.
Chapter III
Procedure for filing and registering industrial designs
Article 113
Any person wishing to obtain a certificate of registration for an industrial design must
file with the Djibouti Office of Industrial and Commercial Property an application for
the industrial design on the conditions provided for in this Chapter.
A single application may relate to up to 100 industrial designs, provided that the said
industrial designs are intended to be incorporated in objects arranged in the same
class of the amended 1968 Locarno Agreement Establishing an International
Classification for Industrial Designs.
The application shall contain the following on the date of filing:
(a) a request to register the design;
(b) the name and address of the applicant, owner or other interested person;
(c) the number of designs and graphic or photographic reproductions included in the
application;
(d) a graphic or photographic reproduction of the designs;
(e) the title of the product or products which constitute the industrial design or in
relation to which the industrial design is to be used, with an indication whether the
product or products constitute the industrial design or are products in relation to
which the industrial design is to be used; the product or products shall preferably be
identified by using terms appearing in the list of goods of the International
Classification;