Title: | Articles 12 and 16 of the Patent Law No. 240 of 14/08/2000 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Substantive examination |
Summary table: |
Article 12
a. If the invention is among the inventions mentioned in Articles 3 and 4 of the Law herein stated the Head of the Intellectual Property Protection Authority shall inform the applicant of such findings within a period of thirty days from the date of the recording, otherwise the filing application shall be deemed accepted. The applicant may present his remarks of such findings within sixty days of being officially informed of such.
b. The Head of the Intellectual Property Protection Authority shall present a detailed report to the Minister of Economy and Trade together with the remarks of the applicant within thirty days of being notified of the remarks of the patent applicant.
c. The Minister of Economy and Trade shall issue a decision either to accept or reject the filing application within sixty days from the day of the detailed report is presented to him by the Head of the Intellectual Property Protection Authority. The decision of the Minister may be appealed against by the applicant before the Civil Court of Appeal of Lebanon within thirty days of notification of such decision.
d. If the filing application is rejected based upon stipulations of Articles 3 and 4 of the present Law, all fees paid shall be deemed to be revenues of the treasury.
Article 16
The patent is issued without guarantee as to the soundness, value, novelty, honesty or precision of description, industrial applicability or creativity of the invention.