This license may only be non-exclusive. The rights deriving from an ex officio license
may not be assigned, transferred or pledged.
70. Amendments to the clauses of the license, which have been requested either by the
patent owner or the licensee, shall be decided upon and published according to the procedure
laid down for the grant of said license. Where they relate to the amount of royalties, they
shall be decided upon according to the procedure laid down for the original fixing of that
remuneration.
The withdrawal of the license requested by the patent owner for failure to comply with
the obligations imposed on the licensee shall be effected in accordance with the provisions of
the regulatory text referred to in Article 69.
71. The competent authority may serve formal notice on the owners of invention
patents other than those referred to in Article 67 above to undertake the working thereof in
such a way as to meet the needs of the national economy.
72. The decision to serve the formal notice provided for in Article 71 above must be
substantiated and notified to the owner of the patent and, where applicable, the holders of the
licenses entered in the National Register of Patents or their agents.
73. Where the formal notice provided for in Article 71 above has not been acceded to
within the time period of one year beginning from the date of receipt of its notification and
where the non-working or the qualitative or quantitative inadequacy of the working
undertaken seriously prejudices economic development and the public interest, the patents to
which the formal notice relates may be worked ex officio.
Ex officio working shall be decreed by means of an administrative act.
The time period of one year laid down in the first paragraph above may be extended by
administrative act of the competent administrative authority where the patent owner provides
proof of legitimate reasons which are compatible with the needs of the national economy.
The extension referred to in the previous paragraph shall start on the date of expiry of
said time period of one year. The decision to grant this extension shall be taken and notified
according to the procedure and in the forms provided for by the decision to serve formal
notice.
74. If, in accordance with the provisions of the first and second paragraphs of Article
73 above, recourse is had to the ex officio working of patents, the provisions of Articles 68 to
70 above shall apply.
75. The State may at any time obtain ex officio, in order to meet its defense
requirements, a license to work an invention that is the subject of a patent application or a
patent, whether the working is to be done by the State itself or on its behalf.
The ex officio license shall be granted at the request of the authority responsible for
national defense by means of an administrative act.
This act shall fix the conditions for the license to the exclusion of those relating to the
royalties to which it gives rise. The license shall enter into force on the date on which the
request for the ex officio license is made.
Failing amicable agreement between the patent owner and the authority concerned, the
amount of the royalties shall be fixed by the Administrative Tribunal of Rabat.