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Filing Requirements: |
Patents:
Burundi
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WIPO as of 30 March
1977
Paris Convention as of 3 September 1977
Types of Patents available:
Kind of Patents registrable:
Patents of Importation
Patents of Addition
Novelty requirements:
Novelty is destroyed by the following
means of disclosure in Burundi:
prior public use, manufacture or
exploitation of the invention by a third
party on a commercial scale; or prior
printed publication anywhere; while
patents of importation may be obtained at
any time during the life of the basic
foreign patent.
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Patent
Filing Requirements: |
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Simply signed
power of
attorney must be
submitted at the
time of filing.
(Power Form)
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Specification,
claims and
abstract in
French at the
time of filing.
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Formal drawings,
if applicable
(required on the
day of filing)
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Assignment of
Priority Rights
can be filed
latter.
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Priority
document with
French
translation can
be filed within
three months.
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Certified copy
of foreign
granted patent
to be filed with
the application
(for Patent of
Importation).
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The term of a
patent of
invention is
twenty years
from the filing
date and the
term of a patent
of importation
is the unexpired
term of the
foreign patent.
Patents of
addition expire
with the main
case. No
annuities are
payable
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