Where the award has been presented on a personal basis, it may only be used
industrially or commercially by the person who has obtained it or by his successors in title. In
the latter case, the name of the holder of the award must be indicated in visible characters.
Where the award has been presented on a collective basis, it may only be used
industrially or commercially either by the group concerned or by each of the members of this
group, on the condition that the local body which obtained it is mentioned expressly, in
characters as visible as those of the award itself.
An award presented to an industrial or commercial enterprise may only be used
industrially or commercially by the owner of this enterprise or by his successors in title.
An award presented on the basis of collaboration may only be used industrially or
commercially if the holder indicates that it is an award for a collaborator and mentions the
name of the firm to which he was attached when he obtained it. Likewise, the owner of the
firm may only use the award if he indicates that it is an award for a collaborator.
Where an industrial award has been presented in recognition of a given product, the
industrial or commercial use may be granted at the same time as the product.
191. Industrial awards which reproduce the signs referred to under Article 135(a) above
shall not qualify for the protection granted under this Law unless the competent authority has
authorized their use.
SECTION II
PROCEDURE FOR FILING AND REGISTERING INDUSTRIAL AWARDS
192. Any person seeking to benefit from the protection granted under Article 189 above
must deposit with the entity responsible for industrial property an application to file an
industrial award.
Applications to file an industrial award must contain on the date of their filing:
(a) a request for registration of the industrial award mentioning the subject of the
industrial award, the content of which shall be fixed by regulation;
(b) two certified true copies of the title of the industrial award;
(c) proof of payment of the prescribed fees.
Applications to file industrial awards which do not contain the documents stipulated
under (a), (b) and (c) above shall not be entertained at the time of filing.
The conditions to be met and the documents to be attached to the documents referred to
under (a), (b) and (c) shall be fixed by regulation.
Where an application to file an industrial award contains the documents referred to
under (a), (b) and (c) above, the request to register the industrial award, as provided for under
(a) above, shall be entered in chronological order of filing in the National Register of
Industrial Awards referred to in the first paragraph of Article 199 below, with a date and
number of filing.
193. If, on the date of filing, the application to file the industrial award does not contain
one or more of the documents to be attached to the documents referred to under (a), (b) and
(c) above, the list of which shall be fixed by regulation in accordance with the fourth
paragraph of Article 192 above, the applicant or his agent shall have three months as from the
date of its filing to correct the application.