Utility models are implements of work or objects to be utilized or parts of such implements or objects in so far as they are useful for the work or employment for which they are intended on account of a new configuration, a new arrangement or a new component device, and are industrially applicable.
GRANT REGIME OF THE UTILITY MODEL IN CAMEROON
Where the Organization finds that all the conditions for the grant of a Certificate of registration have been met, and that a report has been drawn up under Article 18 (2) of the law, it shall grant the certificate of registration of the utility model applied for. In all Cases, however, the grant of certificates of registration of utility models shall be at the applicant’s own risk and without any guarantee either as to the reality, novelty or merits of the invention or as to the truth or accuracy of the description.
The grant of the certificate of registration of the utility model shall take place on a decision by the Director General of the Organization or on a decision by a staff member of the organization duly authorized to that end by the said Director General.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS FOR CERTIFICATES OF UTILITY MODEL IN CAMEROON
Certificates of registration based on international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty shall be granted in the same manner as provided by the law but with reference to the international publication for the said treaty.
REJECTION OF APPLICATIONS FOR CERTIFICATES OF UTILITY MODELS IN CAMEROON
An application that does not fulfil the provisions of Article 12 of the law may, within a period of six months from the date of notification that the application cannot be accepted as filed because it does not have one principal subject, be divided into a number of applications benefiting from the date of the initial application.
Any application for which the requirements of Article 11 and those of Article 12 have not been fulfilled is defective. The defect shall be notified to the applicant or his agent, who shall be invited to correct the documents within a period of three months from the date of the notification. This period may be extended by 30 days, in cases of justifiable need, at the request of the applicant or his agent.