5
2. creations of a purely ornamental nature:
3. financial or accounting methods, game
Incentive certificates shall be issued to the
rules and all other systems of an
author or holder of the discovery and shall
abstract nature, in particular programs
give him the right to a reward, in
or series of instructions for the sequence
accordance with the conditions and
of operations of a calculating machine;
arrangements to be determined by enabling
4. inventions
whose
publication
or
measures.
exploitation would be contrary to public
order, State security or morality.
Nevertheless, incentive certificates shall
only be granted for useful discoveries.
Chapter 4 – Special provisions for
discoveries
Chapter 5 – Filing and grant of patents
and incentive certificates
Art.13. According to this Law, discovery
shall occur when, for a noninventive
Art.15. Applications for patents or
activity, the conclusion is to observe the
incentive certificates shall be filed subject
existence of an object which already exists
to the forms and conditions set in this Law
but whose exploitation has never been
and in its enabling measures.
made public.
Art.16. The filing of applications must
This Article shall not cover scientific
include, in particular:
discoveries according to the Geneva Treaty
1. the name or trade name and address of
on the International Registration of
the holder, the author and, as the case
Scientific Discoveries.
may be, the agent;
2. a clear and complete description of the
Noninventive activity shall be defined as
invention or the discovery. With regard
activities other than those referred to in
to the invention, the description must be
Article 9.
illustrated,
drawings which are necessary for
Art.14. Discoveries may be the subject of
persons skilled in the art to understand
a title called an “incentive certificate”.
and make said invention;
where
appropriate,
by