Patents
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PART XII
OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
83. If any person makes or causes to be made a false entry in any
register kept under this Act. or a writing falsely purporting to be a
copy of an entry in any such register. or produces or tenders or causes
to be produced or tendered in evidence any such writing, knowing
the entry or writing to be false. he shall be guilty of an offence.
84. (I) Ani person who
(a) for the purpose of deceiving the Registrar or any other offi
cer of the Patent Office in the execution of the provisions
of this Act: or
Falsification
of certain
documents
Decejving or
influencing
the Registrar
or an officer
(b) for the purpose of procuring or influencing the doing or
omission of anything in relation to
thereunder;
th~
Act or any matter
makes or submits a false statement or representation, whether orally
or in writing. knowing the same to be false. shall be guilty of an
offence.
(2) Any person who. having innocently made a false statement
or representation. whether orally or in writing, for the purpose of
procuring or int1uencing the doing or omission of anything in rela
tion to this Act or any matter thereunder and who, on becoming
aware that such statement or representation was false, fails to
advise the Registrar forthwith of such falsity, shall be guilty of an
offence.
(No. 12 of 1959)
85. Any person who. after having been sworn, or having in lieu
thereof made an affirmation or declaration. wilfully gives false evi
dence before the Registrar High Court concerning the subject-mat
ter of the proceeding in question, knowing such evidence to be
false or not knowing or believing it to be true, shall be guilty of an
offence.
Witncss
giving fulse
evidence
(As amended by Act No. 18 of 1980)
86. (I) Any officer of the Patent Office who buys, sells, acquires,
or traffics in any invention or patent or any right under a patent shall
be guilty of an offence.
(2) Every purchase, sale or acquisition, and every assignment of
any invention oi patent, by or to any such officer shall be null and
void.
(3) Nothing I!J this section contained shall apply to the inventor or
to any acquisition by bequest or devolution in law.
Prohibition on
trafficking in
patents by
officers in
Patent Office