文档介绍：Ministry of Industry
Law No. 3/92 of February 28
Courtesy translation provided by WIPO © 2013
In the modern world, the establishment of a legal and administrative industrial property protection regime is one of the essential prerequisites for the economic and social development of peoples.
With Angola’s economy currently undergoing radical change, now is an opportune time to define the legislative framework applicable to industrial property, a tool capable of stimulating innovation and inventive activity at the national level, encouraging investment, and promoting the expansion of trade and the widespread dissemination of technology.
In this context, the protection of inventions and industrial designs, together with the protection and regulation of marks, awards, establishment names and emblems, as well as indications of origin and the effective suppression of petition emerge as key elements of the industrial property system.
This protection must be offset by corresponding duties, however, in particular as regards the appropriate industrial exploitation of patented inventions.
In addition, the defense of industrial rights shall contribute to the development of intergovernmental cooperation, in particular in the fields of research and the examination and the analysis of documentation on patents.. Thus, pursuant to Article 51(b) of the Constitutional Law, and in exercise of the power vested in me by Article 47(q) of said Law, the People’s Assembly approves and I hereby sign and order the publication of the following:
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW
CHAPTER I
General Provisions
Article 1 (Purpose and Scope)
This law is designed to protect industrial property, prises not only industry merce in the strict sense, but also agriculture and the extractive industries, as well as all natural and manufactured products.
Invention patents, utility models, industrial designs, production marks, trade marks and service marks, awards, establishment names and emblems and indicati