Patents
[No. 40 of 2016
117. The Registrar may remove, from the register of patent
agents, the name of an agent, on being satisfied that the agent—
(a) has been declared to be of unsound mind by a court of
competent jurisdiction;
(b) has died;
(c) is an undischarged bankrupt;
(d) has been convicted of fraud, forgery or uttering a forged
document;
(e) has been entered in the register of patent agents in error
or by misrepresentation;
(f) has been removed from the roll of practitioners; or
(g) has applied to the Registrar to be removed from the register
of patent agents.
118. The Registrar may, on application with sufficient cause
being shown and on payment of the prescribed fee, restore, onto
the register of patent agents, the name of a person who was
removed from the register.
119. Subject to this Act, the Registrar may refuse to deal
with a person who is not registered as a patent agent but is engaged
in applying for patents outside Zambia in the name or for the benefit
of a person by whom the person is employed.
PART XVII
OFFENCES
120. (1) A person commits an offence if the person makes a
die, block, machine or instrument—
(a) knowing that it is likely to be used for, or in the course of
committing an offence against a patent; or
(b) whether or not it is likely to be used for, or in the course
of, committing an offence against patent.
(2) A person commits an offence if the person possesses or
disposes of—
(a) a die, block, machine or instrument; or
(b) a representation of a patent knowing that, or reckless of
whether or not, the die, block, machine, instrument,
computer, device or representation is likely to be used
for, or in the course of, committing an offence.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), strict liability shall apply
to the physical element of the offence.
851
Removal of
patent agent
from register
Restoration
of
patent agent
Refusal by
Registrar to
deal with
certain
agents
Manufacture
and
possession of
die for use in
commission
of offence