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Art.137. Marks shall be registered for a
Art.134. Marks shall be filed in writing,
period of ten years, starting from the date
subject to the conditions and procedures,
of filing. However, the national guarantee
mutatis mutandis, provided for in Article
mark shall be filed in perpetuity.
112 of this Law and its enabling measures.
The sign constituting the mark and the list
Art.135. On pain of invalidity, the filing
of products or services it covers may not
of a mark must contain, in addition to
be modified either during the period of
proof of payment of the fees due at the
validity of the registration or at the time of
time of filing:
its renewal.
1. the model of the mark containing a list
Registration shall be renewable, upon
of the products, objects or services, to
request, for new periods of ten years in the
which the mark applies:
prescribed forms and subject to payment of
2. the
international
classification
corresponding to the mark;
the ad hoc fee, the amount of which shall
be set by enabling measures.
3. the negative of the mark.
Renewal must be applied for during the
Art.136. The right of priority attached to a
last year of the period provided for in
prior filing made abroad must, on pain of
paragraph 1 of this Article.
invalidity, be claimed at the time of filing
of the mark.
Chapter 3 – Rights and obligations
In no event may filings or claims of
attached to marks
priority be declared admissible unless they
are accompanied by the proof of payment
provided for in Article 135.
Art.138. The rights and obligations of the
holder of a mark shall, by analogy, be the
The provisions of Articles 29, 115 and 117
same as those provided for in Chapter 3 of
shall also apply, mutatis mutandis, to
Title II relating to industrial designs.
marks.