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However, an act shall be binding prior to such entry on third parties who have
acquired rights after the date of this act with notice of the act when the rights were
acquired.
Acts amending the ownership of a registered mark or the enjoyment of the rights
deriving therefrom, such as assignment, licensing, the making or assignment of an
encumbrance or the surrender thereof, seizure, validation and lifting of seizure, shall
be entered with the Djibouti Office of Industrial and Commercial Property at the
request of one of the parties to the act.
For entries of references further to a court decision which has become final, the
Registrar’s Office shall send, within 15 days following the date of said decision, to the
Djibouti Office of Industrial and Commercial Property, a complete set of decisions
free of charge relating to the existence, scope and exercise of the rights deriving from
the protection provided for under this Title.
The formalities to be completed and the documents to be attached to requests for
entries shall be fixed by regulation.
Article 157
Any interested person may obtain an excerpt from the National Register of Marks.
Section II: Seizure
Article 158
The seizure of a factory or service mark may be authorized by an order from the
President of the Court ruling in summary proceedings provided for in Article 1,
paragraph 1, of the decision of March 11, 1969 on protective measures.
The order authorizing the seizure shall be notified to the mark owner, the Djibouti
Office of Industrial and Commercial Property and those persons holding rights in the
mark and recorded in the National Register of Marks.
Once notice of seizure has been given, no subsequent amendment of the rights
deriving from the mark shall be binding on the attaching creditors.
Notice of seizure shall be given on request within 15 days of the order, on pain of
invalidation.
On pain of invalidation for the seizure, the attaching creditors shall in addition have
15 days as from the date of the entry of the seizure in the National Register of Marks
to give such notice to file proceedings before the court for confirming the validity of
the seizure or the action on merit.
The Court shall have the authority to order the placing of the mark for sale by
converting the garnishment into distraint.
Section III – Miscellaneous provisions