15 Article 39 Staff of the Patent Office may not file patent applications personally 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) (2) the applicant has submitted an application for this product to the Patent Office in Egypt as of 1st of January 1995; the same product was patented in a country member of the World Trade Organization on the basis of an application submitted in that country as of 1st January 1995;