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The amendments including the new schedule of fees came into effect on 1 January 2017. ![ARIPO, ARIPO: Harare Protocol Amended and Increase in Official Fees](https://spoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aripo_1.jpeg) The Harare Protocol empowers ARIPO to grant patents and to register utility models and industrial designs on behalf of the member countries. Some of the notable amendments include: - A significant increase in official fees including new fees for additional or existing services (see below for some of the fee increases) - Provisions for post-grant amendments - Restrictions and clarification on multiple dependencies in claims (multiple dependent claims shall not serve as a basis for any other multiple dependent claims) - Request for substantive examination must be filed for all patent applications and substantive examination fees paid - Further clarification of patentable and non-patentable inventions - Biotech inventions – if the disclosure includes nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences, then the sequence listing must also be submitted in a prescribed electronic format - Restoration of rights for patents, utility models and industrial designs - Restrictions on patentable biotechnological inventions - Extensions on time limits ![ARIPO, ARIPO: Harare Protocol Amended and Increase in Official Fees](https://spoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ARIPO-Fees-Patents_3.jpeg) The ARIPO Banjul Protocol on trade marks was neither amended nor discussed at ARIPO’s 40th Administrative Council Session. 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