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ARTICLE · 22 JANUARY 1998

Patent Law In Tunisia

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REPUBLIC OF TUNISIA

PATENT LAW

CHAPTER I

GENERAL RULES

ARTICLE (1)

A letters patent shall be granted by Tunis in accordance with the provisions of this law, for every new creation industrially exploitable, within a determined period.

ARTICLE (2)

Every new creation, whether in connection with new industrial products, new industrial ways or means or new application of industrial known ways or method in order to obtain interest.

ARTICLE (3)

No patents shall be granted to the inventions which involves means of creating new drawings, new financial processes or involves immorality or public disorder. Also no patents shall be granted to inventions relating to foodstuffs, medical drugs or pharmaceutical preparation, unless these preparations are made in a special way or special chemistry processes. In the latter case the patent shall not be granted for the products themselves but for the method of making them.

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