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ARIPO
Paris Convention
PCT

ARIPO patents
National patents

Absolute 

Twelve months.

Formal examination.
Search (ARIPO)
Obligation to submit corresponding foreign search results and application numbers.
Substantive examination (ARIPO).
Amendments upon application before acceptance, upon request post-acceptance.
Grant.

Duration is 20 years from the filing date of the application.
A maintenance fee is payable annually beginning one year after the filing date of the application.

Within four years of filing or three years from grant (whichever period ends later), failing which patent may become subject to grant of compulsory licence.