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ARIPO
Paris Convention
PCT
National patents (patent of invention, patent of addition)
Relative, destroyed by prior local knowledge/use or sale for more that two years outside of Namibia.
Six months (internationally recognised exhibitions only)
Formal examination only.
Grant
Duration is fourteen years from the filing date, extendable a further seven or fourteen years upon application.
Annual maintenance.
Sufficient working within two years of grant, failing which patent may become subject to grant of compulsory licence of revocation.