SECTION II
PROCEDURE FOR FILING AND REGISTERING THE MARK
144. Any person wishing to obtain a certificate of registration for a mark must file with
the entity responsible for industrial property an application for the factory mark, trademark or
service mark in the conditions provided for under this Section. Filing may be effected by the
applicant or his agent.
The application for a mark must comprise on the date of its filing:
(a) a request for registration of a mark, the content of which shall be fixed by
regulation, which contains a clear and complete list of the particular goods or services in
respect of which the registration of the mark is requested, in accordance with the Nice
Agreement concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes
of the Registration of Marks;
(b) four black-and-white reproductions of the model of the mark;
(c) four color reproductions of the model of the mark in the event that color is required;
(d) the film enabling the reproduction of the mark;
(e) proof of payment of the prescribed fees.
An application for a mark which does not contain the documents provided for under (a),
(b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall not be entertained at the actual time of filing.
The conditions to be met and the documents to be attached to the documents provided
for under (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall be fixed by regulation.
Where the application for a mark contains the documents provided for under (a), (b),
(c), (d) and (e) above, the request for the registration of a mark, as referred to under (a) above,
shall be entered in chronological order of filing in the National Register of Marks referred to
in the first paragraph of Article 157 below, with a date and number of filing.
145. If, at the date of filing, the application for a mark does not contain one or more
documents to be attached to the documents referred to under (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) above,
the list of which shall be fixed by regulation in accordance with the fourth paragraph of
Article 144 above, the applicant or his agent shall have three months starting from the date of
filing to correct any shortcomings in the file.
Files which have been corrected within the time period set shall retain the date of initial
filing.
The time period of three months shall be a clear time period. If the last day is a public
holiday or not a working day, the time limit shall be extended until the first following
working day.
146. A receipt recording the date on which the documents referred to in the second and
fourth paragraphs of Article 144 above have been provided shall be delivered to the applicant
or his agent immediately following the filing of the request.
147. Within a period of three months from the date of filing of the mark, upon
substantiated request, the applicant or his agent may seek the correction of mistakes in
expression or transcription as well as substantive errors detected in the documents filed, with
the exception of the registered mark design and the classes designated in the request for
registration, which may not be amended. No correction shall be made outside the aforegoing
time period.