Patents
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(a) known or used anywhere in the former Federation
of Rhodesia and Nyasaland or, after the l.st January,
1964, in the former Protectorate of Northern
Rhodesia or, after the 24th October, 1964, in the
Republic (hereinafter in this definition referred to
as "the said territories") by anyone other than the
applicant or his agent, or the person or persons from
or through whom such applicant has derived his
right or title (secret knowledge or secret user other
wise than on a commercial scale being excluded);
(b) worked anywhere in the said territories otherwise
than by way of reasonable technical trial or experi
ment by the applicant or any person or persons
from or through whom such applicant has derived
his right or title;
(c) described in a patent specification available to pub
lic inspection in accordance with the Patents
(Southern Rhodesia) Act, Chapter 208 of the 1948
Edinon of the Laws, the Registration of United
Kingdom Patents Act, Chapter 205 of the 1957
Edition of the Laws (hereinafter in this section
referred to as "such legislation") or this Act and
bearing a date less than fifty years prior to such
effective date;
(d) described in writing in any publication of which
there was a copy anywhere in the said territories at
the effective date of the application. or in a publi
cation printed and published outside the said terri
tories less than fifty years prior to such date;
(e)
claimed in any complete specification for a patent
which was lodged in accordance with such legisla
tion or this Act and which, though not available to
public inspection at the effective date of the appli
cation. was deposited pursuant to an application for
a patent which is, or will be, of prior date to the date
of any patent which may be granted in respect of
the said invention;
"patent" means 'letters patent for an invention granted for
Zambia under section twenty-five;
"patent agent" means a person who is registered as such in terms
of subsection (1) of section sixty-eight;
"patent of addition" means a patent granted under
section thirty
,
one;
,
"Patent Office" means the Patent Office established under sec
tion three;
"patented article" means any article in respect of which a patent
has been granted and is for the time being in force;