The entity responsible for industrial property must notify the applicant or his agent in
writing of any decision taken in accordance with this Article.
A definitive or temporary prohibition on disclosing and working an invention shall give
rise to an entitlement to compensation fixed in agreement with the owner(s) of a patent
application or his (their) agent.
All disputes relating to compensation shall be referred to the Administrative Tribunal of
Rabat.
43. Where the patent application has not been rejected under the provisions of Article
41 above, and upon the expiry of a time period of 15 days starting from the date of filing or,
where applicable, the date on which the patent application is corrected, a report recording the
filing of said application and mentioning the date of said filing and the attached documents
shall be drawn up by the entity responsible for industrial property.
This report shall be conveyed or notified to the applicant or his agent.
44. Patent applications which have been duly filed with the entity responsible for
industrial property shall only be made public once a time period of 18 months has expired.
This period of time shall start from the date on which the said applications are filed.
Once the above-mentioned period of time has expired, anyone may acquaint himself
with the documents referred to in Article 49 below and receive copies thereof.
45. Only the owner(s) of the patent application or his (their) agent, to whom the report
has been conveyed or notified, may obtain, subject to a written request submitted during the
time period laid down in Article 44 above, an official copy of the original description and,
where applicable, the drawings, issued by the entity responsible for industrial property.
SECTION II
GRANT OF THE PATENT
46. Patents shall be granted after the period of 18 months laid down in the first
paragraph of Article 44 above.
Patents shall be granted on the basis of the date on which the corresponding application
is filed, according to a timetable and frequency provided for by regulation.
47. Patents for which the application has not been rejected shall be granted without
prior examination, at the applicants’ risk and without guarantee as to the reality of the
invention, the faithfulness or accuracy of the description or the merits of the invention.
48. An invention patent shall be granted by the entity responsible for industrial property
and conveyed to the applicant or his agent, accompanied by the description, the claim(s) and,
where applicable, the drawings.
The number of the patent and the date of its grant shall be entered in the National
Register of Patents referred to in the first paragraph of Article 58 below. As from the date of
this entry, anyone may acquaint himself with the patent and receive a copy thereof.
49. The descriptions, claims and drawings for the invention patents and certificates of
addition granted shall be conveyed by the entity responsible for industrial property to anyone
wishing to obtain an official copy thereof.
50. Patents granted shall be published in the Official Catalog referred to in Article 89
below.