Filing of the Application. (1) Any person wishing to have an industrial design registered shall file with the Organization or with the Ministry responsible for industrial property, or send it by registered mail with a request for acknowledgement of receipt (a) his application, addressed to the Director General of the Organization, in the number of copies prescribed by regulation; (b) a document proving payment of the prescribed fees to the Organization; (c) an unstamped private power of attorney if the applicant is represented by an agent; (d) a mention of the type of product for which the design is to be used; (e) on pain of invalidity of the application, a sealed package containing two identical copies of a graphic or photographic representation of the design, in dimensions specified by regulation. (2) The same filing may include from one to 100 designs, which shall be numbered from first to last, provided that they belong to the same class of the International Classification (Locarno Agreement) or to the same set or range of articles. Designs additional to the hundredth shall not be considered validly deposited under this Annex. (3) At the time of filing, the application may contain a request for publication of the design, once registered, to be delayed for a period not exceeding 12 months following the filing date of the application, or following the priority date thereof where priority is claimed.
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Sources: Agreement Revising the Bangui Agreement, Revising Agreement, Agreement Revising the Bangui Agreement