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Industrial Property Act
2014
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Register of industrial property.
(1) The registrar shall maintain two registers one of which shall
contain all industrial property applications received, and the other shall
contain all industrial property and other rights granted under this Act, in
which shall be recorded and numbered in the order of grant, and in
respect of each patent, where appropriate, its lapse for non-payment of
annual fees and all transactions to be recorded by virtue of this Act.
(2) A person may, during working hours, inspect the registers
maintained under subsection (1) and may, subject to the payment of
the prescribed fee and to any regulations made under this section,
obtain extracts from them.
(3) The form of the registers shall be as prescribed by regulations.
(4) The register of patents shall be prima facie evidence of any
matter required or authorised by or under this Act to be entered in the
registers.
6. Protection from personal liability.
No matter or thing done by any member, officer, employee or agent
of the registrar shall, if the matter or thing is done bona fide for
executing the functions of his or her office, render the member,
officer, employee or agent or any person acting on his or her
directions personally liable for any action, claim or demand.
7. Liability of the registrar for damages.
Section 6 shall not relieve the registrar of the liability to pay
compensation or damages to any person for injury to him or her, his or
her property or any of his or her interests caused by the performance of
the functions conferred on the registry by this Act or by any other
written law or by the failure, whether wholly or partially, of any works.
PART III—PATENTABILITY.
8.
Meaning of “invention”.
(1) For the purposes of this Part, “invention” means a solution to
a specific problem in the field of technology.
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