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Law No. 62 Of 30 October 1974 On Inventions And Innovations

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 62 din 30 octombrie 1974 privind inventiile şi inovatiile

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LEGE No. 62 of October 30, 1974 on inventions and innovations
ISSUER GREAT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Published in OFFICIAL BULLETIN NO. 137 of 2 November 1974



+ Chapter 1 General provisions + Article 1 In the Socialist Republic of Romania the state ensures the continuous development of the scientific and technical creation activity carried out by scientists, researchers, specialists, workers, technicians and other staff from the research, design, education and production, for the realization of valuable inventions and innovations, which contribute to the development of the economy, science and culture, to the multilateral progress of socialist society. + Article 2 Scientists, researchers, designers, specialists and other working people in production, in education and in economic units have the duty to carry out a permanent activity for the realization of high inventions and innovations. economic and social efficiency, which capitalize at the higher level the potential for scientific and technical thinking of the Romanian people. + Article 3 The central research institutes, science academies, research, design and education units, as well as the other socialist organizations, have an obligation to stimulate and guide the work of scientific and technical frameworks for achieving of inventions to ensure the broad promotion of technical progress and its own conception in the economy and to take all measures to capitalize on their efficiency in production, in social-cultural activity. + Article 4 Inventions, as the superior form of materialization of the creative scientific and technical thinking, must contribute to: a) introduction into the national economy and social-cultural activity of new discoveries of science and technology; b) realization of new technologies and modernization of existing ones, of products with superior characteristics, introduction of the new in the development of industry, agriculture, construction, other branches of the national economy, and in the field of environmental protection; c) broadening of the raw materials base, reduction of the production material expenses, consumption of raw materials, materials and energy; d) raising the level of mechanization and automation of production processes in the economy, increasing the productivity of social work, increasing economic efficiency, profitability and easing the physical efforts of the workers; e) continuous improvement of technical means to meet the needs of the population and to enrich the material and spiritual life of the people; f) improving the protection of health, service activity and social-cultural mass work; g) increasing the country's defense capacity; h) increasing the competitiveness of Romanian products on the international market, increasing the participation of scientific and technical creation in exchange of material and spiritual values worldwide. + Article 5 Ministries, other central organs and socialist state, cooperative and public units have the obligation to identify original technical creations and ideas, to ensure their protection through patents and to take the necessary measures for research, design, experimentation, application and generalization of inventions in all sectors of activity, according to the provisions of this law. Also, socialist organizations have the duty to provide technical and legal support to the authors of inventions for the preparation of patent forms of inventions. + Article 6 Central research institutes, science academies, research, design and education units, conception compartments in plants and businesses, as well as patent holders, have an obligation to follow the way they apply in the first place. production of the inventions achieved, the efficiency achieved and ensure the continuous improvement of the technical solutions adopted. + Article 7 In the Socialist Republic of Romania the scientific and technical creations, which meet the conditions laid down in the law to constitute inventions, are protected by patents of inventions, granted by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks. + Article 8 The rights regarding inventions of Romanian individuals and legal entities, as well as of foreigners residing in the Socialist Republic of Romania, are recognized and protected under the present law. Foreigners residing abroad, as well as foreign legal entities, benefit from the provisions of this law, under the conditions provided by the international conventions to which the Socialist Republic of Romania is a party, and in their absence, on the basis of of reciprocity. + Article 9 The right to capitalize on inventions belongs to the state that ensures conditions for their experimentation, valorization, development and generalization. + Chapter 2 Her invention and protection + Article 10 It constitutes invention, within the meaning of the present law, the scientific or technical creation, which presents novelty and progress towards the known stage of the world technique, which has not been patented or made public in the country or abroad, represents a solution technique and can be applied to solve problems in the economy, science, health protection, national defense or in any other field of economic and social life. + Article 11 The invention that perfects or completes an invention, for which there is a patent in force and cannot be applied without the previously patented one, constitutes a complementary invention. + Article 12 Inventions that contravene the laws, rules of socialist coexistence or which by their application would adversely affect the development of society, are not patentable inventions. + Article 13 He is the author of an invention the person who created the invention. If the invention is the result of a joint activity, all persons who have made a creative contribution are considered co-authors. People who gave technical help to the realization of invention, but who did not have a creative contribution, cannot be co-authors. + Article 14 The patent shall be granted as follows: a) socialist organizations from the Socialist Republic of Romania for: -the inventions made by persons framed in a socialist organization during the employment contract and in connection with their work; -the inventions resulting from works carried out at the request or with the material help of some socialist organizations; b) state socialist organizations for inventions that have as object substances obtained by nuclear, chemical, drug products, diagnostic and medical treatment methods, disinfectants, food and spices, as well as new varieties of plants, strains of bacteria and fungi, new breeds of animals and silkworms, regardless of the conditions in which they were made; c) individual authors or collectively in the case of other inventions than those referred to in lett. a) and b). + Article 15 For inventions whose patent holder is the socialist organization a certificate of inventor is granted to the author. For the inventions provided in art. 14 lit. c), the author or collective of authors may cede the rights to the invention of a socialist organization or ask for a patent. + Article 16 For complementary inventions are granted patents of inventions under the same conditions as for the inventions they complete. + Chapter 3 Patent procedure for inventions + Article 17 The patent application, accompanied by the documentation required by the patentee, is registered with the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, constituting the regulatory deposit, and assures the applicant the right of priority, starting from the date the formation of the deposit, compared to any other subsequent deposit on the same invention. + Article 18 The patent application is submitted to the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks by the socialist organization, at the written request of the author or ex officio. If the socialist organization does not comply with the author's written request within 30 days, he/she can apply directly to the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks. The patent application is submitted for opinion, by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, central research institutes, science academies or research institutes and profile design within 15 days of registration. + Article 19 The Romanian natural and legal persons and those of the states parties to the conventions on inventions to which the Socialist Republic of Romania is a party, as well as their assimilations, benefit, under the present law, from a right of priority of 12 months, starting from the date of the first deposit, if it requests within this period, for the same invention, the granting of a patent. + Article 20 A 6-month exhibition priority is recognized from the date of introduction to the exhibition, for the patented inventions displayed in a national or international exhibition, officially or officially recognized, organized on the territory of the Socialist Republic Romania or in the states with which it has concluded conventions in this regard or in the states that ensure such a right, under the condition of reciprocity. This priority will not extend the priority period provided for in art. 19. + Article 21 The priorities provided in art. 19 and 20 are recognized if they are invoked with the filing of the patent application and if, within 3 months from the date of application, it is confirmed by acts of priority. + Article 22 The patent is granted by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, following the examination of the application in terms of meeting the conditions for the existence of a patentable invention, based on the opinion of the central research institutes, the science academies or research institutes and profile design. The opinion shall be communicated to the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks within 30 days of receipt of the necessary documentation for the patent. In the course of the examination of the application by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, it has the right to ask the applicant for clarification demonstrating that the object of the invention meets the conditions for the patent. Socialist organizations are obliged, at the request and at the deadlines set by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, to carry out the works and to present the necessary information to examine the patent application. + Article 23 The decision granting the patent for the invention or the reasoned rejection of the patent application shall be taken no later than 2 years after the registration of the application. Patents are entered in the patent register of inventions granted. + Article 24 The period of validity of a patent is 15 years, starting from the date of establishment of the regulatory deposit. For the complementary invention patent, the validity period is limited to that of the patent granted for the invention it completes, without being shorter than 10 years. + Chapter 4 Application and generalization of inventions + Article 25 Central research institutes, science academies or research institutes and profile design have the obligation that, within 30 days of filing the application for the grant of the invention patent to the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, to analyze and rule on the possibilities of design, realization, experimentation, valorization in the country and abroad of the respective invention and to submit the necessary documentation to the ministry or central body in whose branch of activity can be applied. Ministries and other central bodies are required within 30 days of receipt of the documentation, according to the preceding paragraph, to establish the patent titular socialist organization and to communicate this to the State Office for Inventions and Marci, as well as take steps to introduce invention in the plan. + Article 26 The titular socialist organization of the patent has the obligation to experiment, to draw up the execution projects and to apply the invention in no more than one year after its designation as holder. In duly justified cases, this term may be extended by central research institutes, science academies or central guardianship bodies. + Article 27 Research, experimentation and application of inventions are made by socialist organizations by including in their own plans or in the single national economic-social development plan, based on a technical-economic foundation study endorsed by Central research institutes, science academies or research institutes and profile design. The application and generalization of an experienced and verified invention in industry or other sectors of the national economy, with the aim of replacing or perfecting technological lines and processes, installations, appliances or other products, will only be made on the basis of a technical-economic study, with the opinion of the central research institute, the academy of sciences or the central body, with the agreement of the National Council for Science and Technology. + Article 28 Research, experimentation, testing and valorisation of new plant varieties, strains of bacteria and fungi, new breeds of animals and silkworms are made within the timelines and conditions laid down in the special law. + Article 29 The patented inventions for which socialist organizations in the Socialist Republic of Romania are titular can be used free of charge and without fulfilling any formalities by any Romanian socialist organization, with the obligation for the latter to announces the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks. Companies and joint companies with Romanian participation can use the inventions provided for in the previous paragraph on the basis of license contracts concluded with patent holders. + Chapter 5 Patenting and capitalizing on Romanian inventions in other states and foreign inventions in the Socialist Republic of Romania + Article 30 The patenting of Romanian inventions in other states is made by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, through the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Socialist Republic of Romania, on the proposal of patent holders, with the opinion of the central institutes of research, science academies or research institutes and profile design, in compliance with the conditions provided for in this law. The expenses for patenting Romanian inventions in other states and for the maintenance in force of these patents are borne from the centralized currency fund at the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks and is carried out through the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Socialist Republic of Romania. + Article 31 The patenting of foreign inventions in the Socialist Republic of Romania is made by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, at the request of the patent holders, transmitted through the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Socialist Republic of Romania. + Article 32 The exploitation of Romanian inventions in other states is done through foreign trade enterprises, at the proposal of patent holders, with the opinion of central research institutes, science academies or research and design institutes. profile, through export of products, installations and technologies, mutual exchange of licenses and through cooperation, in compliance with legal provisions. + Article 33 The exploitation of foreign inventions in the Socialist Republic of Romania is done through foreign trade enterprises, with the opinion of the central research institutes, science academies or research institutes and profile design and with the agreement the central beneficiary body. + Article 34 Patenting and capitalizing on inventions made on the basis of collaboration or cooperation conventions or within the joint enterprises and companies to which the Romanian state is a party or a Romanian socialist organization the provisions of these conventions. + Chapter 6 Rights and obligations + Article 35 By granting patents, the patent holder shall ensure the right of exclusive use of the invention on the territory of the Socialist Republic of Romania. + Article 36 By granting the inventor certificate, the inventor is recognized as the author of the invention. + Article 37 The authors of the inventions applied in the national economy are rewarded morally and materially by: awarding scientific titles, orders and medals, professional degrees, exceptionally promoting in office, awarding prizes and other monetary rewards -established according to the post-calculated economic and social advantages. The monetary rewards are calculated for each individual invention, on the basis of norms approved by the Council of Ministers, at the proposal of the National Council for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Labour. The size of the reward to be paid for each invention is approved by the National Council for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance, on the proposal of the socialist patent organization, with the opinion of the central institutes of research, science academies or the central tutelary organ. The payment is made by the socialist organization to which the invention was applied, from the savings actually obtained from the application of the invention, calculated annually on the basis of the norms provided in par. 2. + Article 38 The annual monetary reward for an invention applied in the economy is set up to the level three times the monthly tariff retribution of the function of the main scientific researcher in that branch. The reward period can be no more than 5 years. The size of the reward is the same, regardless of the number of the authors, and its payment is made only during the period when the invention actually applies. If an author has several inventions applied, the amount of the annual reward granted may not exceed the level provided in par. 1. Authors of applied inventions are entitled to the rewards provided for in the first paragraph, independently of the prizes they can benefit from, according to the legislation in force. + Article 39 Nominal record of rewards granted according to art. 38 is organized at the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, based on the data communicated by the paying socialist organizations. + Article 40 The realization of inventions in the scientific research and design work, carried out on a contract basis, by the research and design units constitute one of the main tasks of the scientific and technical frameworks in these units. For the inventions applied in the economy, made under the conditions of the previous paragraph, the author may receive, in relation to the economic efficiency obtained, prizes equivalent to no more than three times his monthly tariff retribution, which also expresses the reward for invention. The size of these prizes shall be calculated on the basis of the rules 37 37 and shall be granted for a single year of application. The provisions of this article also apply to cadres who perform leadership positions in research, design, education and other socialist units. + Article 41 The National Council for Science and Technology, with the opinion of ministries or other interested central bodies, may submit for approval to the Council of Ministers proposals for granting special rewards for inventions of particular importance technical-scientific, technological, economic or social. + Article 42 The inventor has the obligation to provide the necessary technical assistance, to participate, at the request of socialist patent organizations, to the design, experimentation, application and generalization of inventions, to give clarification on them and to meet any other requirements provided by law in order to patent inventions. The socialist organization that requests the technical assistance of the inventor shall bear the expenses of travel, accommodation, daily allowance and retribution, in accordance with the legal provisions in force. + Article 43 The inventor has the right to be mentioned the quality of inventor, the name and surname in the patent granted, in the description of the invention and in any publications or documents concerning his invention, as well as the right to be passed the quality of inventor in the work book. + Article 44 The right to grant the patent, the right to the patent, as well as the patrimonial rights arising from the patent, may be transmitted. The patrimonial rights arising from the inventor certificate may also be transmitted. + Article 45 The transmission of rights regarding the use of the invention is registered with the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks by the patent holder and produces effects to third parties only from the date of its registration. + Article 46 Inventions that do not belong to socialist organizations can be used by interested socialist organizations, without the consent of patent holders, taking into account the agreements and conventions to which the Romanian state is a party, based on licenses Compulsory granted by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, in the following cases: a) the inventions are of public interest or in connection with the defense of the state and no agreement has been reached with the patent holders; b) the inventions were not applied or were insufficiently applied on the territory of the Socialist Republic of Romania, without the holder of the patent being able to justify his inaction for 3 years from the date of issuance of the invention patent. Compulsory licenses granted do not give the right to use exclusively the inventions to which they refer and cannot be transmitted in the form of sublicences than together with the patrimony or with a fraction of this patrimony or in the case of reorganization Socialist beneficiary organization. The decision on granting or refusing to grant the license shall be communicated in writing to those interested, with the showing of the reasons, within 5 days of taking it. + Article 47 It does not constitute a violation of the exclusive rights conferred on socialist organizations and other patent holders of inventions: a) the use of patented inventions in the construction and operation of land, naval and air vehicles or devices for the operation of these vehicles, belonging to the Member States to the conventions on inventions, to which the Socialist Republic Romania is a party, when these vehicles enter temporarily or accidentally on the territory of the Socialist Republic of Romania, provided that they are made exclusively for the needs of vehicles; b) the use of the invention by the one who obtained a compulsory license; c) the use of the invention by the one who applied the invention or took all measures in order to apply it in good faith, independently of the holder of the invention patent and before the constitution of the regulatory deposit of the patent application invention or before the date from which the recognized priority term flows. In this case, the invention can still be used by the interested one and can only be transmitted with the patrimony or with a fraction of this patrimony or in the case of the reorganization of the socialist organization. + Article 48 The rights arising from the patent shall cease upon the expiry of the term of protection of the invention or by the waiver of the patent holder. Socialist organizations in the Socialist Republic of Romania can renounce the rights arising from the title of patent holder only with the opinion of the central research institute, the academy of sciences or the central body. The waiver takes effect from the date of registration of the waiver request at the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks. + Article 49 The registration and examination of patent applications for inventions, the maintenance of patents in force, as well as any other acts or services carried out by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks in relation to patents of inventions, are subject to the duties determined by the decision of the Council of Ministers. The fee for keeping the patents in force shall be paid annually during the period of validity. They are exempt from taxes: a) the registration of patent applications for inventions when a declaration of disposal to a socialist organization is filed with them; b) the actions and requests of the inventors, including those for which remedies are exercised, in connection with the inventions for which the inventor certificates are granted, according to the law. The Ministry of Finance, at the proposal of the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, may grant exemptions or tax reductions in other cases than those provided in par. 3, Romanian or foreign natural or legal persons. Holders of patents of inventions decad, by effect of the law, of the rights conferred by patents, if they do not pay the annual fees and tax increases within the legal deadlines. + Article 50 The patent is partially or totally annulled by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks through the Commission for the Settlement of Appeals on Inventions, if it is found that the invention was not patentable according to the provisions of art. 12 or the legal conditions for the existence of the patentable invention were not met. The application for cancellation of the patent can be made throughout the term of protection of the invention. The cancellation of the patent has the effect of cancelling the certificate of inventor issued for that invention by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks. + Article 51 If a court decision finds that a person other than that appearing in the patent as an inventor is entitled to issue the patent, the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks shall issue the patent. the entitled person. + Chapter 7 Dispute resolution on inventions + Article 52 Decisions on inventions can be challenged at the Commission for the Settlement of Appeals on Inventions of the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, by socialist organizations or by interested persons. The appeals shall be entered within 3 months from the communication of the decisions and shall be resolved within 30 days from the registration of appeals. + Article 53 The decisions rendered by the Commission for the Settlement of Appeals on Inventions of the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks are final, except for decisions concerning the granting of the patent or the rejection patent application, which can be appealed with appeal to the Bucharest City Court, within 3 months of communication. + Article 54 The introduction of the appeal suspends, until resolution, the execution of the decision on the payment of rewards and other amounts of money. These amounts are recorded at the House of Savings and Consemnations, until the appeal is resolved. + Article 55 The Commission for the Settlement of Appeals on Inventions of the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks or the Courts may order the reinstatement of the interested party if the deadlines are found to have been exceeded for reasons Duly justified. In the case of the deadline provided for 19, the reinstatement shall be ordered only for reasons of force majeure. The request for reinstatement shall be made within 2 months after the end of the case justifying the exceeding of the term, but not later than one year after the end of the non-compliance period. + Article 56 The application of the invention or the taking of measures for its application, carried out in good faith, before the term reinstatement of the patent holder, gives the right to the continued application of the invention and can only be transmitted together with the patrimony or with a fraction of this heritage or in the case of reorganization of the legal person + Article 57 The final decision on the payment of amounts of money, in the case of the invention for which the inventor certificate was granted, constitutes an enforceable title. + Article 58 The rewards obtained by authors without right are returned under the law by those who collected them. + Article 59 The Commission for the Settlement of Appeals on Inventions of the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks consists of 5 specialists, including the Director-General of the Office, as President. The organization and functioning of the Commission for the resolution of appeals on inventions within the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks shall be established by regulation approved by the Executive Office of the National Council for Science and Technology, which also approves the nominal composition of the commission, at the proposal of the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks. + Article 60 Disputes in relation to the quality of author or co-author of an invention, the division of reward shares or other patrimonial rights between co-authors, as well as any other disputes regarding the rights arising from patents of inventions, disposals, licenses and compulsory licenses, shall be settled by the courts, according to the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure. + Chapter 8 Defending the State Secretary on Inventions + Article 61 All inventions for which the patent is requested, created by Romanian citizens or by foreign persons residing on the territory of the Socialist Republic of Romania, constitute state secrets until their patent and publication in the Bulletin for inventions and marks or until their dispatch abroad by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, with a view to patenting in other states. The documentation elaborated within the socialist organizations, the works or the doctoral theses that render the results of scientific research and comprising the patentable inventions, as well as the technical application and experimentation data and any other technological knowledge, information or technical experiences in relation to inventions also constitute state secrets, according to the provisions of the previous paragraph, from the moment of transition to their elaboration. + Article 62 After the patent it still retains the character of state secret: a) inventions relating to the country's defence b) the inventions of which, of the higher state interests or of the national economy, are assigned this character. Framing the invention in the category of those provided in lett. a) is made by the Ministry of National Defence or the Ministry of Interior, and the classification of the invention in the category of those provided in lett. b) is made by the ministry in whose branch of activity can be applied. If, from state or national economy interests, the Ministry of National Defence or the Ministry of Interior considers that the invention must not continue to be subject to the regime provided for in lett. a), and the ministry in whose branch of activity may be applied the invention considers that the invention must not continue to be subject to the regime provided in lett. b), these inventions shall be applied to the regime provided in art. 61. + Article 63 Applications for patents on inventions provided for in art. 61 shall be entered in the register of applications for patents submitted, and their title shall be published in the Bulletin for inventions and marks, except for applications for inventions provided for in art. 62 lit. a). Applications for patents on inventions provided for in art. 62 62 are entered in a separate register. Preparation, multiplication, manipulation, submission of patent applications at the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, preservation, transport and access to the works regarding the inventions provided in art. 61 and 62 are made in compliance with the legal provisions in force on the defense of state secrecy. Patent applications and documentation necessary for patenting made by persons who are not classified in the socialist organizations shall be submitted to the executive committees of the popular councils and shall be immediately transmitted by them to the State Office for Inventions and Marci. The translation of documents relating to the inventions to be patented abroad is made by the care of their holders, under the conditions provided in par. 3. + Article 64 Persons employed at the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, persons collaborating with the office, as well as any persons carrying out works in connection with the inventions, are required to preserve the state secret of the data contained in patent applications and other documents relating to inventions, in accordance with the legal provisions on defence of state secrecy. + Chapter 9 Innovations + Article 65 It constitutes innovation the technical realization that presents national novelty, progress and economic or social advantages, solve a problem in the industry or in any field of economy, science, culture, health protection and defense of the country or in any other field of economic and social life and has not been applied on the territory of the Socialist Republic of Romania. + Article 66 The application for innovation shall be registered with the socialist organisation to which its author is assigned to the socialist organisation to which it may apply. The proposal for innovation referring to the country's defence is registered with the Ministry of National Defence or the Ministry of the Interior. + Article 67 He is the author of an innovation the person who made it and recorded it the teeth. If innovation is the result of a joint activity, all persons who have contributed to it are considered co-authors. + Article 68 The author of an innovation has the right to receive an innovative certificate. By granting the certificate of innovator it is recognized to him the quality of author of the innovation that can give the right to highlight and promotion in work, to the granting of orders and medals and other distinctions. + Article 69 The socialist organization to which the registration of the proposal for innovation was made is obliged, within 15 days from the date of registration, to transmit the proposal accompanied by the necessary documentation to the ministry or other central body to which it is subordinate. + Article 70 The Ministry or other central body that has received the innovation proposal has the obligation that, no later than 2 months after receipt of the proposal, it shall examine it from a technical and economic point of view and ask for confirmation of the national news and the opportunity of applying the central research institute, science academies or research institutes and profile design. + Article 71 The ministry or other central body that received the innovation proposal within 15 days of receiving the confirmation on the novelty issues the certificate of innovator. + Article 72 The decision on the design, experimentation and application of an innovation shall be adopted by the collective management body of the unit applying it, with the agreement of the central research institutes, science academies or research institutes and profile design, based on the foundation of technical-economic efficiency, no later than 6 months after the registration of the proposal. + Article 73 For innovations that present a very special economic or social importance, at the proposal of the socialist organizations where they applied, the tutelary ministries can approve, with the opinion of the central research institutes, the academies of sciences or research institutes and profile design, an award equivalent to the amount of at most three times the monthly tariff retribution of the innovator, according to the legal provisions, for the first year of application, regardless of the number of innovations applied that year. In the case of innovation made jointly by several persons, the award is equivalent to no more than three times the monthly tariff retribution of the co-author with the highest retribution. Decisions on innovations can be challenged at the Commission for the Settlement of Appeals on Inventions of the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks. Appeals are introduced within 3 months from the communication of decisions and are resolved by final decisions, within 2 months from the registration of appeals. + Chapter 10 Duties, liabilities and sanctions + Article 74 The National Council for Science and Technology is responsible for the application of party and state policy in the field of inventions and other forms of industrial property, for which purpose directs and coordinates the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, Specialized state organ, of republican interest, with autonomous activity. The State Office for Inventions and Trademarks examines the novelty and technical progress of inventions and grants patents of inventions, directs, pursues and controls the work on experimentation, application and valorisation of inventions and responds to activity regarding the protection of inventions in the Socialist Republic of Romania. + Article 75 The General Union of Trade Unions in Romania leads the mass movement of inventors and innovators and organizes, according to its duties, the public control on the activity of inventions and innovations. + Article 76 Ministries and other central bodies, industrial plants and patent organizations are responsible for enrolling research tasks, design, experimentation, application, valorisation and generalization of inventions. + Article 77 People with leadership positions in socialist organizations are obliged to take measures to identify and protect inventions through patents, for the design, experimentation, application and valorization of inventions and innovations. Failure to fulfil the obligations provided for in the preceding paragraph shall entail administrative, disciplinary, material, civil or criminal liability, as appropriate Socialist organizations will recover damages from the guilty persons, in accordance with the regulations in force. + Article 78 The misappropriation, in any way, of the quality of author of an invention or innovation constitutes a crime and is punishable by imprisonment from 6 months to 2 years or with a fine. The criminal action is set in motion ex officio. + Article 79 The filing of a patent application abroad, for the purpose of obtaining the patent, before being registered in the country, as well as harnessing the invention abroad of persons not empowered for this purpose, constitutes a criminal offence and is punishes with imprisonment from 6 months to 2 years or a fine, apart from cases in which it constitutes a more serious offence. + Chapter 11 Final and transitional provisions + Article 80 The rewards for inventions and innovations with economic efficiency will be paid from the savings actually made following their application, calculated according to the provisions of art. 37 37 and 38. + Article 81 Patent applications for inventions registered with the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, under consideration, as well as those found at socialist organizations and in relation to which no decision of acceptance or rejection has been taken, shall be filed. shall be settled in accordance with the provisions of this Law. Proposals for outstanding innovations until the date of entry into force of this Law shall be settled in accordance with the provisions of this Law. Unpaid rewards until the date of entry into force of this law shall be established and paid in accordance with the provisions of this law, regardless of the title and the date on which the right to reward was born. + Article 82 This law comes into force after 3 months of publication in the Official Bulletin of the Socialist Republic of Romania. + Article 83 On the date of entry into force of this Law, the Decree no. 884/1967 on inventions, innovations and rationalisations, and any other provisions to the contrary. --------------