Act 3
Industrial Property Act
2014
(a) records a filing date;
(b) rejects the application;
(c) treats the application as if it had not been filed;
(d) considers any of the claims to be withdrawn; or
(e) refuses to grant a patent.
PART VI—INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS.
34. Further functions of the registry.
(1) The registry shall act as a receiving office where an international
application is filed with it by a national or a resident of Uganda.
(2) The registry shall act as a designated office or an elected
office in the case of any international application in which Uganda is
designated or elected for a national patent.
(3) The functions of the registry under this Part shall be performed in
accordance with the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the regulations made
under it and the administrative instructions issued under the regulations of
the Patent Cooperation Treaty and with the provisions of this Act and the
regulations made under the Act relating to them.
(4) In case of conflict, the provisions of the Patent Cooperation
Treaty, the regulations and the administrative instructions issued
under it shall apply.
35. Unsearched or unexamined international applications.
(1) Where an international search report is not established or relates
to only one or some of the claims of an international application, the
registrar shall reject the international application or consider withdrawn
the claim or claims which are not covered by the report, as the case may
be, except to the extent that the applicant satisfies the registrar that the
non-establishment of the report in whole or in part was not justified.
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