• circulating to the public all requisite information for protecting inventions and registering merchants in the commercial register, as well as taking any action with a view to awareness-building and training in these areas. 4. The Moroccan Industrial and Commercial Property Office shall be authorized, under Article 3 above: • to receive, register, grant and publish applications for industrial property titles, in accordance with the provisions of the Law on the Protection of Industrial Property; • to receive, with regard to the Commercial Register, declarations for entries relating to the commercial register concerning registrations, amending entries and deletions, and to enter them in the Central Commercial Register, in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 15– 95 forming the Code of Commerce. The Office shall in particular be authorized to issue certificates relating to entries concerning the names of merchants, trade names and brand names as well as certificates and copies relating to other entries made therein, as provided for by Law No. 15–95 forming the Code of Commerce. The Office shall also be responsible for: • circulating the technical information contained in industrial property titles, subject to the provisions provided for by the Law on the Protection of Industrial Property; • conducting studies on industrial property and the Commercial Register, and taking any initiatives with a view to ongoing adaptation of national and international laws to the needs of innovators and merchants. To this end, it shall propose to the supervisory authority any reform it deems useful in this respect. It shall assist with the drafting of international agreements and help represent Morocco in the competent international organizations with regard to industrial property in general; • applying, as far as it is concerned, international industrial property agreements, and in particular maintaining administrative relations with the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization and cooperation ties with other international and regional offices and bodies with regard to industrial property and commercial registers; • making available to the public all technical and legal documentation concerning industrial property, subject to the provisions laid down in the Law on the Protection of Industrial Property, as well as the Central Commercial Register, in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 15-95 forming the Code of Commerce; • managing the Official Catalog of Industrial Property and the compendium containing all information on the names of merchants, trade names and brand names. To manage its collection of documents, the Office may set up databases, where applicable, in collaboration with other files or registers; • promoting the industrial property system and the Commercial Register in the Kingdom, in particular by establishing, at the provincial level, branches responsible for: — public assistance and information with regard to industrial property and the commercial register; — receipt of applications for industrial property titles and requests for negative certificates;

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