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(c) Register of Industrial Designs;
(d) Register of Trade Names;
(e) Register of Industrial Property Consultants and Other Natural and Legal Persons
Approved as Agents and Representatives.
(2) Consultation of the Registers and of certain elements in the files shall be free of
charge. Extracts from the Registers may be obtained against payment of the fee laid down in
Annex I.
(3) In addition to the entries in the Registers referred to in paragraph (1), above, with
respect to the operations carried out in application of this Decree, the following entries shall
be made in those Registers for all industrial property titles governed by this Decree:
(a) change of name or address of applicant or owner;
(b) change of business name of applicant or owner;
(c) withdrawal of application;
(d) relinquishment of application;
(e) transaction concerning industrial property title;
(f) cancellation of industrial property title;
(g) removal of industrial property title.
(4) The Register referred to in Article 9(1)(e) of this Decree shall contain the entry of
any change of name, business designation or address concerning industrial property
consultants approved by the Office.
(5) Entry of instruments concerning licenses and assignments and those concerning
court decisions shall be made in the Registers referred to in Article 9(1)(a) to (d) of this
Decree.
(6) The Office shall publish an Official Gazette of Industrial Property at regular
intervals. The Office shall lay down the frequency of its publication together with the selling
price per copy or through subscription.
(7) Any entry made in the Registers referred to in Article 9(1)(a) to (d) of this Decree
shall be mentioned in the Official Gazette of Industrial Property.
10. Applications for patents, certificates of addition, inventors’ certificates, trademarks
and industrial designs filed in Madagascar shall use, respectively, the International Patent
Classification established by the Strasbourg Agreement of March 24, 1971, the International
Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks,
established by the Nice Agreement of June 15, 1957, and the International Classification for
Industrial Designs, established by the Locarno Agreement of October 8, 1968.

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