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REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA
Article 31
(Composition of marks)
1. A mark may be composed of a sign or a set of signs that are visual,
nominative, figurative or emblematic and that make it possible to distinguish the
products or services of an enterprise from other identical or similar ones.
2. The following, inter alia, may be regarded as manufacturing, trade or service
marks: patronymics, geographical names, arbitrary or fanciful names,
monograms, emblems, figures, ciphers, labels, combinations or arrangements of
colors, designs, photographs, seals or, generally speaking, any material signs
that are used to distinguish the products or services of any enterprise.
Article 32
(Foreign marks)
A mark requested by a person domiciled abroad may be registered as an
Angolan mark pursuant to and for the purposes of this law, on the condition that
its owner ensures that it is related to his actual commercial, industrial or
professional activity legitimately carried out in the country of origin.
Article 33
(Applications for registration)
1. Applications for the registration of a mark must be set out in a request, drafted
in the Portuguese language and indicating the following:
a) the name or business name of the holder of the mark, his nationality and
profession, and his domicile or the place where he is established;
b) the products or services for which the mark is intended;
c) the number of the registration and of any award featuring or referred to on
the mark;
d) the country in which the first registration of the mark was applied for and the
date of this application;
e) in the case of a collective mark, the legal or statutory provisions establishing
its regime and governing its use.
2. The request must be accompanied by the following:
a) a reproduction of the mark for which registration is sought;
b) authorization from the holder of the foreign mark represented by the
applicant in Angola;
c) authorization from the foreign person to the applicant whose name,
signature, sign or likeness features on mark.