or an intermediate until at least three years from the date of
termination of their employment in the Office.
Article 40
The provisions applicable to invention patents shall apply to any matter
which is not specifically provided for in relation to patents of utility
models.
Article 41
Provisions of this Law shall apply to any application filed with the
Patent Office and which has not been granted a patent before the entry
into force of this Law. The applicant may amend his application in
conformity with the provisions of this Law.
The protection period prescribed by this Law shall apply to any patent
not expired on the day of its entry into force, so as to extend the
protection period in conformity with the period stipulated in Article
9 of this Law.
Article 42
The Minister of Justice, in agreement with the competent minister, shall
determine the persons empowered with judicial authority to enforce the
provisions contained in this Book.
Article 43
The Patent Office shall receive patent applications with regard to
food-related agrochemical products and to pharmaceuticals, and shall
maintain such applications, along with applications relating to the
same products and filed as of 1st January 1995, pending their
examination as of 1st January 2005.
In the case of a patent granted for the inventions relating to the
products mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the protection shall
begin from the date of granting the patent until the end of the period
provided for in Article 9, calculated from the date of application.
Article 44
Without prejudice to the date set for the examination of patent
applications relating to the products mentioned in Article 43, the
applicant shall be entitled to request from the competent public
authority to be granted exclusive marketing rights for his product in
Egypt, provided that:
(1) the applicant has submitted an application for this product to the
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