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At the holder’s request, in accordance with the regulations and subject to
payment of the prescribed fee, registration may be renewed for two consecutive
periods of five years each.
Article 212: A six-month grace period shall be granted for payment of the renewal fee after
the due date, subject to payment of the surcharge for late payment. Should this
not be the case, the registered design shall be invalidated
Article 213: Registered designs which have been invalidated may not be restored.
Chapter V. Licensing contracts for industrial designs
Section 1. Signature of licensing contracts
Article 214: Holders of industrial designs may, by contract, give any natural person or legal
entity a license enabling him/it to exploit the design.
The term of the license may not exceed that of the registration of the design.
On pain of nullity, the licensing contract must be drawn up in writing and signed
by the contracting parties.
Article 215: Licensing contracts must be entered in the special register for designs kept by
the Industrial Property Director, subject to payment of the prescribed fee.
Licenses shall only be binding on third parties once they have been entered
therein and published in the Official Journal of Burundi and on the Internet site
of the Ministry responsible for trade.
Article 216: The entry for a license shall be struck out at the request of the holder of the
design or the license holder upon presentation of proof that the license has
expired.
Section 2. Unenforceable clauses
Article 217: The following clauses shall be deemed unenforceable: clauses contained in
licensing agreements or agreed in relation to such contracts, insofar as they
impose on the license holder, from an industrial or commercial standpoint,
limitations which do not arise from the rights conferred by the registration of the
design or which are not necessary for the maintenance of such rights.
Article 218: Determination of the unenforceable clauses covered by Article 217 shall be
made by a commercial court at the request of any interested party.

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