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(5) The admissibility of the application shall be conditional on the payment of the
prescribed fees.
98.—(1) Any person who wishes to claim the priority of an earlier application under
the Paris Convention shall be required to attach to his application for an industrial design or to
file within a period of three months as from filing the application, on pain of inadmissibility:
(i) a declaration stating the date and number of the earlier application, the country in
which it was filed and the name of the applicant;
(ii) an official copy issued by the country of origin of priority accompanied by a
translation in French;
(iii) a written and legalized authorization by the applicant or his successors in title
empowering him to claim that priority if he was not the person who filed the first application.
(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall remain valid for a group of priorities claimed
by the applicant.
99.—(1) The Agency shall examine from an administrative point of view whether the
application for the industrial design complies with the conditions laid down by this Ordinance
and its implementing decree.
(2) Where the application for the industrial design does not satisfy the conditions
referred to in paragraph (1), the Agency shall refuse registration or shall propose that the
applicant regularize his application, whereby such act shall not have the effect of creating a
new right or reinstating a lapsed right. Regularization shall be subject to payment of the
prescribed fee.
100.—(1) The Agency shall carry out registration of the industrial design in accordance
with the conditions laid down in this Ordinance and its implementing decree.
(2) In the event of the Agency refusing registration, the applicant may, within the
prescribed time limit, enter an appeal before the competent court.
101. On payment of the prescribed fee, the applicant may request that an official copy
of his application be issued, comprising the photographic reproduction of the design.
102.—(1) Registered designs shall be published in the Official Gazette of Industrial
Property.
(2) Registered designs may be consulted by the public and any person may obtain a
copy thereof at his own expense.
103. Any competent authority or any person proving a legitimate interest may appeal to
the competent court against any final decision by the Agency with regard to an industrial
design.
Section 4
Rights Afforded by Registration of an Industrial Design
104.—(1) Registration of an industrial design affords to its owner or his successor in
title the right to prohibit others from carrying out the following acts:
(i) the slavish reproduction or fraudulent imitation of the design in the manufacture of a
product;
(ii) importing, offering for sale or selling a product reproducing the protected design;
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