Assignements / Licenses

The Harare Protocol provides as follows in relation to patents, utility models and industrial designs:
–  The Industrial Property Offices of designated States of which the national laws provide for the registration of licenses, assignments and other similar rights shall, upon registering such rights with respect to a patent or utility model or an industrial design granted, registered or applied for under the Protocol, promptly provide the ARIPO Office with particulars of such registrations.
–  Without derogating from the previous requirement an assignment of a patent, industrial design or utility model shall be registered in the appropriate Register at ARIPO at the application of any interested party and on production of documents satisfying the ARIPO Office that the transfer has taken place.