Act 3
Industrial Property Act
2014
(4) The rights of the patent do not extend to variants or mutants
of living forms or replicable living matter that is distinctively
different from the original for which patents were obtained where
those mutants or variants are deserving of separate patents.
44. Exception to exclusive rights.
It is not an infringement of a patent to use the patented invention
without the authorization of the patent holder in any of the following
circumstances—
(a) to carry out any acts related to experimental use or research
on the patented invention, whether for scientific or
commercial purposes;
(b) to make use of a patented invention for teaching or
educational purposes;
(c) to carry out acts, including testing, using, making or selling a
patented invention solely for the purposes reasonably related to
the development and submission of information required under
any law of Uganda or of another country which regulates the
manufacture, construction, use or sale of any product;
(d) to make use of the patented invention in relation to the
preparation for individual cases, in a pharmacy or by a
medical doctor, of a medicine in accordance with a medical
prescription; and
(e) to manufacture and export to another country a patented
healthcare invention where the export of the invention addresses
a health need identified by the other country, where—
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