Act 3
Industrial Property Act
2014
(t) impose requirements for payments even under conditions
of force majeure;
(u) impose restrictions which prevent or hinder export by
means of territorial or quantitative limitations or prior
approval for export or export prices of products or
increased rates of payments for exportable products
resulting from the technology licensed;
(v) impose quality control methods or standards not needed by
the licensee, except to meet the requirement of a guarantee
or when the product bears a trade mark, or trade name of
the licensor;
(w) allow the licensor to participate permanently in the
management of the licensee’s business as a condition for
obtaining the technology;
(x) restrict the licensee from taking measures that will enhance
Ugandan technological capacity and which are not
prejudicial to the licensor’s industrial property rights;
(y) restrict the use of Ugandan expertise in management and
consultancy or in any other positions;
(z) require payment of royalty for patents granted outside
Uganda;
(aa) apply different conditions to similar transactions with
other trading parties, and that placing the licensee at a
competitive disadvantage; and
(ab) make the licence contract subject to acceptance of
supplementary obligations which, by their nature or
according to commercial usage, have no connection
with the subject of the contracts.
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