Organizational Statute of the Industrial Property Institute
CHAPTER I
Nature and responsibilities
Article 1
Nature
1. The Industrial Property Institute, known by the acronym IPI, shall be a public institution
endowed with independent legal personality and administrative and financial autonomy.
2. The IPI shall be regulated by the provisions of the present statute and other legislation
applicable to legal persons governed by public law.
3. The IPI shall operate under the supervision of the Minister for Industry and Trade.
Article 2
Headquarters
The IPI shall have its headquarters in Maputo and, where justified and with the authorization of
the Minister responsible, after consultation with the Minister for Planning and Finance, may, in the
exercise of its activities, open or shut down offices or other forms of representation in any other
part of Mozambique.
Article 3
Duties
The IPI shall be national in scope and shall have the following duties:
a) the enforcement of the rules governing industrial property rights, bearing in mind the public
interest and the technological and economic development of Mozambique;
b) the promotion of the activities necessary for the granting and protection of industrial property
rights and contributing to efforts in terms of fair competition.
Article 4
Competences
In discharging these duties, the IPI shall be competent to:
a) contribute to the definition of specific policies on industrial property and to monitor the
implementation of the measures arising from these policies;
b) submit proposals for the improvement and development of industrial property legislation
and to ensure that it is complied with;
c) process applications for invention patents, utility models, industrial designs and the
registration of marks, establishment names and signs, appellations of origin and
geographical indications, and logotypes, and to classify them;