(3) Patents and industrial designs registered under the said Proclamation shall remain in
force for the unexpired portion of the period of protection provided thereunder, subject,
respectively, to the payment of annual maintenance fees or renewal fees provided for in this
Order.
(4) Trade marks registered under the said Proclamation shall be due for renewal within
the same period as under the said Proclamation or 10 years from the entry into force of this
Order, whichever period first expires, and, upon renewal, shall be reclassified in accordance
with the International Classification.
(5) A person who, on the date of entry into force of this Order,
(a) is the owner of a patent granted in the United Kingdom or has filed an application
for the grant of a patent in the United Kingdom; or
(b) is the proprietor of an industrial design registered in the United Kingdom or has
filed an application for registration of an industrial design in the United Kingdom,
may, within 12 months of the entry into force of this Order, file an application for the grant of
a patent for the same invention or for the registration of the same industrial design under this
Order and such application shall be accorded the filing date or priority date accorded to the
application, grant or registration in the United Kingdom.
(6) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Patents, Trade Marks and Designs Protection
Proclamation, 1919 by the Patents Act, 1984, applications for the registration of patents, trade
marks and industrial designs filed in Lesotho between October 1, 1985, and the date of entry
into force of this Order shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of that
Proclamation, and, upon being granted, shall be subject to the provisions of this Order.
(7) Within 18 months from the entry into force of this Order, the Minister may, by
notice in the Gazette, make any further transitional or saving provisions which appear to him
to be necessary or desirable.
LESOTHO
Industrial Property Order, 1989 (Order No. 5 of 1989, as last amended by Act No. 4 of 1997)
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