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Madagascar
Information on the filing of Patents, Designs and trademarks in Madagascar

PATENT REGISTRATIONS

Madagascar is a member of the International Convention and of the PCT.

The requirements for filing a non-PCT application in Madagascar are as follows:

(a) Power of Attorney (notarised) - can be late filed within two months;

(b) Specification, claims and abstract in French - required on the day of filing;

(c) Formal drawings, if applicable - required on the day of filing;

(d) Assignment of Invention - can be late filed, no set deadline; and

(e) Priority document with verified French translation - can be late filed within three months.

The requirements for filing a PCT application in Madagascar are as follows:

(i) Power of Attorney (notarised) - can be late filed within two months;

(ii) Specification, claims and abstract in French (if any of these parts have been amended, only as amended by the annexures to the IPER) - required on the day of filing;

(iii) Formal drawings, if applicable - required on the day of filing;

(iv) Copy of the PCT Application as published by WIPO - required on the day of filing;

(v) Copy of the International Search Report - can be late filed, no set deadline; and

(vi) Copy of the International Preliminary Examination Report (including annexures relating to amendment, if applicable) - can be late filed, no set deadline.

We estimate that the costs involved for filing an application in Madagascar will be between about US$ 2000.00 and US$ 2200.00. To this must be added charges of about US$ 80.00 per priority claim, about US$ 35.00 for each page of the specification over 20, and about US$ 55.00 for each claim over the first 9. Furthermore, we are able to attend to translations from English to French at a cost of US$ 25.00 per 100 words (if required).

Annuities are due from the 2nd anniversary of the filing date (which is the international filing date for PCT national phase applications). Accordingly, outstanding annuities may be payable for PCT applications upon national phase entry at a cost of about US$ 350.00 per year.

On all our previous files (where the PCT issued a favourable IPER in each case) there were no prosecution costs other than the grant and publication fees which should amount to about US$ 200.00.



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