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Patents
cation or within such period as may be prescribed after the lodging
of that application.
.
(As amended by No. 36 of 1960
and G.N. No. 185 of 1964)
Special
provisions as
to vessels.
aircraft and
land vehicles
9. (1) Where a vessel or aircraft registered in a convention coun
try or a land vehicle owned by a person ordinarily resident in such a
country comes into Zambia temporarily or accidentally only, the
rights conferred by a patent for an invention shall not be deemed to
be infringed by the use of the invention
(a) in the body of the vessel or in the machinery, tackle, appa
ratus or other accessories thereof, so far as the invention is
used on board the vessel and for its actual needs only; or
(b) in the construction or working of the aircraft or land vehi
cle or of the accessories thereof;
as the case may be.
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(2) This section shall not affect the provisions of section sixteen
of the Aviation Act (which exempts certain aircraft from seizure on
patent claims).
(As amended by G.N. No. 185 of 1964)
Protection of
inventions
communicated
under interna
tional agree
ments
10. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Minister may,
by statutory instrument, make regulations for securing that, where an
invention has been communicated in accordance with any agreement
or arrangement made by or on behalf of the Government with the
government of any country for the supply or mutual exchange of
information or articles
(a) an application for a patent for an invention so communi
cated made by a person, his legal representative or
assignee, entitled under section eleven to make such appli
cation, shall not be prejudiced, and a patent granted on such
an application shall not be invalidated by reason only that
the invention has been communicated as aforesaid or that
in consequence thereof
(i) the invention has been published, made, used, exer
cised or vended; or
(ii) an application for a patent has been made by any
·other person, or a patent has been granted on such
an application;
(b) any application for a patent made in consequence of such a
communication as aforesaid by a person who is not entitled
so to do under section eleven may be refused and any patent
granted on such an application may be revoked.
(2) Regulations made under subsection (1) may provide that the
publication, making, use, exercise or vending of an invention or the