Articles in this chapter
Article 30
Where a person, claiming a right of ownership, objects to an invention that has not previously been registered in his name and for which another person has filed an application for registration with the Registration Authority, he must, simultaneously with the objection, apply for registration of the invention for himself and pay the application registration fee and other related fees. The Registration Authority is obliged, within ten days from the date of receipt of the notice of objection, to serve a copy of it, together with copies of the documents and evidence relied upon, on the applicant for registration. The applicant is obliged, within twenty days from the date of notification, to file his written response to the objection with the Registration Authority. Where the applicant remains silent regarding the objection or accepts it in writing, his request for registration of the invention shall be deemed withdrawn, and the Registration Authority shall notify the objector accordingly so that he may proceed with its registration through the application he filed simultaneously with the objection. Where the applicant does not find the objection well-founded, the Registration Authority shall notify the objector within ten days, and the objector may, within twenty days from the date of notification, file his objection with the Board referred to in Article (23) of this Act and deliver the receipt thereof to the Registration Authority. In that case, examination of the patent application shall be stayed until the final determination of the objection file; and where the receipt of the objection is not delivered, the examination process of the initial application shall continue. The said Board is obliged to examine the objection and issue the appropriate ruling within at most three months. The said period may be extended only once, for at most three months.