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8) 

Article 5 is amended to read as follows: “Notwithstanding the grant of the patent, a person who, in good faith, manufactures, uses an industrial manufacturing process of a product, or makes serious preparations therefore, before the filing date of an application by another person, or before the priority date of the application pertaining to the same product or process, shall have the right to continue such use or to use the invention as envisioned in such preparations. Assignment or transfer of the said right is only permitted together with the establishment or with that part of the establishment in which the use or preparations for use have been made.”

9)

Article 7.3 is amended to read as follows: “Nationals of States Party to a relevant international agreement to which Iraq is a member.”

10)

Article 7.5 is amended to read as follows: “Companies, societies and establishments formed in Iraq or in countries that are members of a relevant international agreement to which Iraq is a member, and enjoying juridical personality, industrialists, manufacturers, merchants or laborers, provided that the invention shall be primarily registered in the name of the inventor, unless when the invention had already been patented outside Iraq, in which case such invention may be registered in the name of the company, establishment or society that owns it.”

11)

Article 12 is amended to read as follows: “A patent shall grant its owner the following rights:

a)	Where the subject of the patent is a product, the right to prevent any person who has not obtained the owner's authorization from making, exploiting, using, offering for sale, selling or importing that product.
b)	Where the subject of the patent is an industrial process, the rights to prevent any person who has not obtained the owner's authorization from using the process or the product directly made by the process, offering for sale, selling or importing the product.”

12)

Article 13.1 is amended to read as follows: “The term of duration of the patent shall not end before the expiration of a period of twenty years for registration under the provisions of this Law as from the date of the filing of the application for registration under the provisions of this Law.”

13)

Article 13.2 is suspended.

14)

Article 16.2 is amended to read as follows: