Title IV: Title V: Annex I: Title I: Title II: Section I: Section II: Section III: Section IV: Section V: Director General............................................................ Financial Resources of the Organization Resources ...................................................................... Income and Fees ........................................................... Budgetary Surpluses ..................................................... Miscellaneous, Transitional and Final Provisions Legal Personality, Privileges and Immunities of the Organization.................................................................. Headquarters of the Organization.................................. Duration of the Organization......................................... Signature and Ratification............................................. Entry into Force and Effects ......................................... Transitional Provisions ................................................. Titles Granted in a State Prior to its Accession ............. Titles in Force within OAPI Prior to the Accession of a State............................................................................ Revision ........................................................................ Denunciation ................................................................. Patents General Provisions Definitions .................................................................... Patentable Invention...................................................... Novelty.......................................................................... Inventive Step ............................................................... Industrial Applicability ................................................. Non-Patentable Subject Matter ..................................... Rights Conferred by the Patent ..................................... Limitation of the Rights Conferred by the Patent.......... Term of Protection ........................................................ Right to the Patent......................................................... Right to the Patent: Employee Inventions .................... Conversion of a Patent Application into a Utility Model Application ........................................................ Right of Foreigners to Patents....................................... Formalities Concerning the Grant of Patents and Certificates of Addition Applications for Patents Filing of the Application ............................................... Unity of Invention......................................................... Claim of Priority ........................................................... Unacceptability Due to Non-Payment........................... Filing Date .................................................................... Grant of Patents Transmittal of the Patent Application to OAPI ............. Examination of Applications......................................... Amendment of the Claims, the Description, the Drawings and the Abstract ............................................ Grant ............................................................................. Deferment of Grant ....................................................... Conditions Governing Rejection................................... Recording of Acts in the Special Register of Patents .... Certificates of Addition Right to Certificates of Addition................................... Duration ........................................................................ Conversion of an Application for a Certificate of Addition into a Patent Application................................ Communication and Publication in Relation to Patents and Certificates of Addition Formalities for Conversion of an Application for a Certificate of Addition into a Patent Application.......... Independence of the Right to Exploit Patents Relating to the Same Subject Matter ........................................... Communication of Descriptions and Drawings of Patents and Certificates of Addition.............................. Publication of Patents and Certificates of Addition ...... Transfer and Assignment of Patents and Contractual Licenses 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32