800 No. 40 of 2016]
Interpretation
Act No. of 15
of 2010
Act No. 15
of 2010
Cap. 1
Patents
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“Agency” means the Patents and Companies Registration
Agency established under the Patents and Companies
Registration Act, 2010;
“anticipation” means the prior invention or disclosure of a
claimed invention by another person or the inventor’s own
disclosure of the claimed invention by publication, sale or
offer to sell if that prior invention or disclosure predates
the date of the patent application filing;
“applicant” means a person who applies for a grant of a patent
or utility model certificate, and includes a person making,
any other formal application in accordance with this Act;
“ARIPO” means the African Regional Intellectual Property
Organisation, established by an agreement adopted at
Lusaka on 9 December, 1976;
“article” includes any substance, material, equipment,
machinery or apparatus, whether affixed to land or not;
“assessor” means an expert in Intellectual Property or a
relevant field appointed by the Registrar;
“assignee” means a person who derives title to an invention
from a patentee;
“authorised person” includes a contractor, subcontractor, firm
or corporation that is authorised, in writing, to undertake
an activity for non-commercial purposes for or on behalf
of the Government;
“Board” means the Board of the Agency constituted in
accordance with the Patents and Companies Registration
Agency Act, 2010;
“Budapest Treaty” means the Treaty on the International
Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-organisms for the
purposes of Patent Procedure established at Budapest on
28 April, 1977, as amended and modified from time to time;
“child” has the meaning assigned to it in the Constitution;
“commercially exploit” means to use or develop something
for business purposes, and includes selling;
“compulsory licence” means a licence granted by the Minister,
in accordance with, and for the purposes stated in, section
ninety-nine;
“convention application” means an application for the grant
of a patent from a convention country;