Patents
[No. 40 of 2016
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GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA
ACT
A BILL
No. 40 of 2016
Date of Assent: 27th December,
2016
ENTITLED
An Act to provide for the protection and administration of
patents; to provide for the patentability of inventions; to
provide for the process for obtaining letters patent for an
invention; to provide for the restriction, publication and
communication of patents; promote the use of patented
information and technological knowledge; to provide for
contractual and compulsory licences; to provide for the
use and acquisition of inventions by the Government; to
promote and encourage innovative and inventive
activities and local generation of technologies; to provide
for the protection of utility models and the grant of a utility
model certificate; to give effect to the Paris Convention
for the Protection of Industrial Property 1883, the Patent
Cooperation Treaty 1970, the Harare Protocol on Patents
and Industrial Designs adopted on December 10, 1982,
and the World Trade Organisation Agreement on TradeRelated Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, 1994, and
any other relevant international treaty or convention to
which Zambia is a State Party; to repeal and replace the
Patents Act, 1958; and to provide for matters connected
with, or incidental to, the foregoing.
[27th December, 2016
ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia.
PART I
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
1. This Act may be cited as the Patents Act, 2016, and shall
come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by statutory
instrument, appoint.
Enactment
Short title
and
commencement