TITLE II
DEPOSIT AND PUBLICITY
Article 8
Filing of the Application
(1) Any person wishing to have an industrial design registered shall file with the
Organization or with the Ministry responsible for industrial property, or send it by registered
mail with a request for acknowledgement of receipt
(a) his application, addressed to the Director General of the Organization, in the
number of copies prescribed by regulation;
(b) a document proving payment of the prescribed fees to the Organization;
(c) an unstamped private power of attorney if the applicant is represented by an agent;
(d) a mention of the type of product for which the design is to be used;
(e) on pain of invalidity of the application, a sealed package containing two identical
copies of a graphic or photographic representation of the design, in dimensions specified by
regulation.
(2) The same filing may include from one to 100 designs, which shall be numbered
from first to last, provided that they belong to the same class of the International
Classification (Locarno Agreement) or to the same set or range of articles. Designs additional
to the hundredth shall not be considered validly deposited under this Annex.
(3) At the time of filing, the application may contain a request for publication of the
design, once registered, to be delayed for a period not exceeding 12 months following the
filing date of the application, or following the priority date thereof where priority is claimed.
Article 9
Claim of Priority
(1) Any person wishing to avail himself of the priority of an earlier application shall be
required to attach to his application or to send to the Organization, at the latest three months
following the filing date of his application,
(a) a written declaration stating the date and number of the earlier application, the
country in which it was filed and the name of the applicant;
(b) a certified true copy of the said earlier application.
(2) The applicant who seeks to avail himself of two or more rights of priority shall
comply with the provisions mentioned above for each of them; he shall also pay a fee for
each priority right claimed and shall produce evidence of payment of the fee within the threemonth period mentioned in paragraph (1) above.
(3) Any priority claim that reaches the Organization more than three months after the
filing of the application shall be declared inadmissible.