89.
(1)
Where any period of time is specified by this Act as running from the
doing of any act, it shall be reckoned as commencing on the day next
following the doing of that act.
(2)
Whenever the last day on which, in terms of this Act, any act may or is
required to be done or any document may or is required to be lodged,
falls on a day on which the patent office is closed, that act may be
done or that document may be lodged on the next following day on
which the patent office is open for the transaction of business.
Condonation or correction of irregularities in procedure.
The registrar or the commissioner may authorize the condonation or
correction of any irregularity in procedure in any proceedings before him,
provided such condonation or correction is not detrimental to the interests of
any person.
90.
91.
Certain conditions excluded from contracts.
(1)
Any condition in a contract relating to the sale of a patented article or
to a licence under a patent of which the effect will be—
(a)
to prohibit or restrict the purchaser or licensee from purchasing
or using any article or class of articles, whether patented or
not, supplied or owned by any person other than the seller or
licensor or his nominee;
(b)
to prohibit or restrict the licensee from using any article or
process not protected by the patent;
(c)
to require the purchaser or licensee to acquire from the seller,
licensor or his nominee any article or class of articles not
protected by the patent;
(d)
to require or induce the purchaser to observe a specified
minimum resale price in respect of any article or class of
articles protected by the patent; or
(e)
to prohibit or restrict the making, using, exercising or disposing
of the invention concerned in any country in which the
invention is not patented,
shall be null and void.
(2)
Nothing in this section shall—
(a)
affect any condition in a contract whereby a person is
prohibited from selling any goods other than those of a
particular person; or
(b)
affect any condition in a contract for the lease of or a licence to
use a patented article, whereby the lessor or licensor reserves
to himself or his nominee the right to supply such new parts of
the patented article, other than ordinary articles of commerce,
as may be required to put or keep it in repair.
Regulations.
The Minister may make regulations—
(a)
with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, prescribing the
matters in respect of which fees shall be payable, and the tariff of such
fees;