Article 1400. Re-establishment of the patent for invention, useful model or industrial model.

1. The patent for an invention, a useful model or an industrial model that has been terminated because the patent duty for maintaining the patent has not been paid in force a period of time may be restored by the federal intellectual property authority at the request of the patent holder or his successor. a patent may be reinstated before the said federal executive authority within three years of the expiry of the patent duty, but until the expiry of the pre-selection period. 2. The Federal Government ' s Intellectual Property Authority shall publish in the Official Gazette information on the restoration of the validity of the patent. 3. A person who, between the date of termination of the patent for the invention, the useful model or the industrial sample and the date of publication In the Official Gazette of the Federal Executive on Intellectual Property, information on the restoration of the patent has begun to be used as a useful model. or an industrial sample, or made preparations necessary during the period in question, retains the right to continue to use it free of charge without increasing such use (para. 4. Post-use rights may be transferred only with the enterprise in which the invention or solution different from the invention took place. Only equivalent features (art. 1358, para. 3) of a useful model or industrial design have been made or the necessary preparations have been made.