MADAGASCAR Decree No. 92-994 on the Creation and Organization of the Malagasy Industrial Property Office (OMAPI) (of December 2, 1992)* TABLE OF CONTENTS** Articles Title I: Title II: Chapter I: Chapter II: Title III: Title IV: Title V: Legal Nature and Tasks of OMAPI............................... Structure [Without title]................................................................ Administrative Council ................................................. Directorate General ....................................................... Financial and Accounting Organization........................ Resources of the Office and Their Verification............. Miscellaneous ............................................................... 1-6 7 8 - 18 19 - 20 21 - 25 26 - 30 31 - 32 Title I Legal Nature and Tasks of OMAPI 1. There is hereby set up a “Malagasy Industrial Property Office,” abbreviated as OMAPI and hereinafter referred to as “the Office,” under the technical supervision of the Minister responsible for industry and the financial supervision of the Minister responsible for finance. 2. The Office is a public establishment of an industrial and commercial nature enjoying legal personality, administrative and financial autonomy and technical independence in the execution of its tasks. 3. The administration of the Office shall not be subject to the rules of public accounting, but shall be governed by the provisions of this Decree. 4. The headquarters of the Office shall be located in Antananarivo. Agencies may be set up in other localities by a joint order of the Ministers responsible for technical supervision and financial supervision. 5. The aim of the Office shall be to administer industrial property in Madagascar, as referred to in Article 2 of Ordinance No. 89-019 of July 31, 1989, and to promote inventive activity. Its duties shall include: — receipt and examination of applications for patents for invention and inventors’ certificates, their registration, issue of patents and inventors’ certificates and their publication; — receipt and examination of applications for trademarks and service marks, their registration and their publication; — receipt and examination of applications for industrial designs, their registration and their publication; — receipt and examination of applications for trade names, their registration and their publication;