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trademark that has been validly registered for said goods, or whose essential
aspects cannot be distinguished from this factory or trademark, and which
therefore infringes the rights of the holder of the mark in question under the
legislation in Burundi;
- Date of priority, the date of a prior request which serves as a basis for the
right of priority provided for by the Paris Convention;
- Decision of the General Council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) of
August 30, 2003, the decision of the WTO General Council on the
implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the Agreement on
Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and public
health;
- Distinctive sign of a firm, a variety of designations such as marks, business
symbols, emblems, logos and slogans used by a firm to make known, in the
exercise of industrial or business activities, the identity of the firm and the
products it manufactures or the services it provides;
- Industrial design, any combination of lines or colors or any plastic form,
whether or not it is associated with lines or colors, provided this combination
or this form gives a special appearance to an industrial or crafts product and
can serve as a type for the manufacture of an industrial or crafts product, and
that it attracts the eye and is judged visually;
- Exclusive license, a licensing contract which gives the licensee and, when this
contract expressly so provides, the persons authorized by the licensee, the
right to exploit the licensed industrial property to the exclusion of all other
persons, including the rights holder;
- Geographical indication, an indication used to identify a product as being
from the territory of a country, region or locality of this territory, when a
quality, reputation or other given characteristic of the product can be
essentially attributed to this geographical origin;
- Integrated circuit, the final or intermediate form of a product designed to
perform an electronic function and in which the elements, at least one of
which is active, and all or part of the interconnections are integrated in or on
– or both in and on – a part of the materials;
- International classification, with regard to patents and utility models, the
classification for patents, copyright certificates for inventions, utility models
and utility model certificates, called “International Classification of Patents
and Certificates”, established by the Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the
International Patent Classification of March 24, 1971, amended on September
28, 1979; with regard to industrial designs, the classification established by
the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for
Industrial Designs of October 8, 1968, in its most recent version; and, with
regard to marks, the classification established by the Nice Agreement