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Applications for patents or incentive
certificates must concern a single invention
Art.34. Decisions to grant a patent or
or discovery or a group of inventions or
incentive certificate shall be taken by the
discoveries, provided that these inventions
competent authority or his delegate.
or discoveries are related to each other in
such a way as to form a unit.
Art.35. Subject to the provisions of
Articles 28 and 30, patents and incentive
Claims relating to an invention or group of
certificate shall be granted in the order in
inventions may concern, simultaneously or
which the corresponding applications were
not, one or more means, one or more
filed.
applications of means, or one or more
products.
Art.36. Subject to what is stipulated in the
Chapter relating to secret inventions and
If
an
application
concerns
several
discoveries, patents shall be granted
inventions, it must be divided within the
respectively for the following periods,
same time limit as that provided for the
starting from the filing of the application:
period of admissibility, if the competent
1. 20 years for invention patents;
Ministry or the applicant so requests.
2. 15 years
for
invention
patents
concerning drugs.
Divisional applications shall benefit from
the date of filing and, as the case may be,
Art.37. Import patents and improvement
the date of priority of the initial
patents shall come to an end at the same
application.
time as the primary patent to which they
are attached.
Art.33. Once the prescribed formalities
have been performed, the holder, his agent
Art.38. Patents may also end by express
or his successor in title shall be issued with
written
the original of the patent or incentive
addressed to the Ministry responsible for
certificate, to which shall be attached a
industrial property.
copy of the descriptive summary of the
invention or discovery and, as the case
Waivers may be total or partial.
may be, the duly numbered drawings
concerning this description.
and
authenticated
waiver,