Patents
[No. 40 of 2016
“convention country” means a country or an intergovernmental body which is Party to the Paris Convention;
“Convention on Bio-Diversity” means the Convention
recognising biological diversity, signed in Rio de Janeiro, in
1992, at the Earth Summit;
“date of lodging” means the date on which a document is
lodged or where it is deemed by virtue of any provision in
this Act to have been lodged;
“depository institute’ means a scientific institution established
in accordance with the Budapest Treaty;
“designated office” means the national office of, or acting
for the state designated by the applicant in accordance
with the Patent Cooperation Treaty;
“DNA” means deoxyribonucleic acid that carries the genetic
information in cells and some viruses;
“elected office” means the national office of, or acting for,
the state elected by the applicant inaccordance with the
Patent Cooperation Treaty;
“examiner” means an officer appointed in accordance with
section eight;
“exclusive licence” means a licence, in writing, signed by or
on behalf of a patentee authorising the licensee, to the
exclusion of all other persons, to exercise a right that would
otherwise be exercisable exclusively by the patentee, and
“exclusive licensee” shall be construed accordingly, with
the necessary modifications;
“exploit” means making, importing, offering for sale, selling
or using a product or process, and includes stocking up a
product for the purpose of offering for sale, selling or using;
“filing date” means the date of receipt of an application for
the grant of a patent which complies with the requirements
stipulated in section twenty-seven;
“foreign application” means an application for the grant of a
patent or any other protection filed with any other country
other than Zambia by an applicant for the grant of a patent
in accordance with this Act;
“genetic resource” means any genetic material of a biological
resource containing genetic information having actual or
potential value for humanity and includes derivatives, fauna
and flora of terrestrial, aquatic and any other origin which
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