(e) to restrict the licensee’s freedom to use any materials which are not supplied by the
licensor or by sources designated or approved by the licensor, unless it is otherwise
impossible, for all practical purposes, to ensure the quality of the products to be produced;
(f) to oblige the licensee to sell the products produced by him exclusively or principally
to persons designated by the licensor;
(g) to oblige the licensee to make available to the licensor, without appropriate
consideration, any improvements made by the licensee with respect to the technology to
which the contract relates;
(h) to limit the quantity of the products produced by the licensee;
(i) to restrict the licensee’s freedom to export or to allow others to export the products
produced by him, provided that if the licensor owns, in a country to which such a restriction
applied, a patent which would be infringed in case of importation of the said products into the
said country, if the licensor has a contractual obligation not to allow others to export the said
products to such a country or if the licensor already supplies the market in such a country with
the same products, such facts shall be taken into account;
(j) to oblige the licensee to employ persons designated by the licensor not needed for
the efficient transfer of the technology to which the contract relates;
(k) to impose restrictions on research or technological development carried out by the
licensee;
(l) to restrict the licensee’s freedom to use any technology other than the technology to
which the contract relates;
(m) to extend the coverage of the contract to technology not required to achieve the
objective of the contract and to oblige the licensee to give consideration for such technology;
(n) to fix prices for the sale or resale of the products produced by the licensee;
(o) to exempt the licensor from any liability resulting from any defect inherent in the
technology to which the contract relates or to restrict such liability unreasonably;
(p) to restrict the licensee’s freedom to use, after the expiration of his contractual
obligations, the technology acquired as a result of the contract, subject, however, to any right
of the licensor under a patent;
(q) to establish the duration of the contract for a period which is unreasonably long in
relation to the economic function of the contract, provided that any period which does not
exceed the duration of the patent to which the contract relates shall not be regarded as
unreasonably long.
Registrar
37. There shall be a Registrar whose office shall be an office in the public service.
LESOTHO
Industrial Property Order, 1989 (Order No. 5 of 1989, as last amended by Act No. 4 of 1997)
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