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Industrial Property Act
2014
(6) Within six months from the expiration of the grace period
referred to in subsection (3), an interested person may, upon payment
of the prescribed fee, request the registrar to restore the application
that is taken to have been withdrawn, or a patent that has lapsed, by
virtue of subsection (4).
(7) Upon a request under subsection (6), the registrar shall, if
satisfied that the failure to pay the annual fee is not intended, subject
to the payment of the annual fee, make an order restoring the
application or the patent as the case may be.
(8) Where a patent is restored, no proceedings shall be brought
in respect of the patent—
(a) in relation to any acts performed after the lapse of the
patent and before the date of the order for restoration; or
(b) in relation to any acts performed after the date of the order
of restoration in relation to articles imported into or
manufactured in Uganda, after the lapse of the patent and
before the date of the order for restoration.
PART IX—CHANGE IN THE OWNERSHIP AND JOINT OWNERSHIP OF
APPLICATION AND PATENT.
48. Change in ownership of application.
(1) A contract assigning a patent or application for a patent shall
be in writing and shall be signed by the party making the assignment.
(2) A change in the ownership of a patent or an application for a
patent shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, be recorded in the
patent register.
(3) Until the change has been recorded, a document evidencing
the change in ownership shall not be admitted in any proceedings as
evidence of the title of a person to an application or a patent, unless
the court otherwise directs.
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