SUDAN
Patent Law no. 58 of 1971
Part One: Preliminary Provisions
Chapter One: Title and Definitions
1. Title: This Act may be cited as “The Patents Act, 1971.”
2. Definitions: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) “The Court” means the High Court;
(b) “Minister” means the Attorney General;
(c) “patent Office” means the Office that the Minister shall establish to
perform the functions assigned to it under this Act.
Chapter Two: Terms of Patentability
3. Patentable Inventions:
(1) Any invention which is new, involves an inventive step and is capable
of industrial application shall be patentable.
(2) Any invention constituting an improvement upon a patented invention
shall be patentable if it is new, involves an inventive step and is capable of
industrial application.
(3) Principles and discoveries of a scientific nature shall not be considered
to be inventions.
4. Novelty:
(1) An invention is new if it is not anticipated by prior art, prior art being
constituted by everything disclosed to the public, anywhere and at any
time whatsoever, by means of a written or oral disclosure, by use, or in