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PART VII - INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS
Regulation of designs
Application for registration of industrial designs
Filing date
Examination of applications
Registration of industrial designs
Publication of details of industrial designs
Donation of industrial designs
Rights conferred by registration of industrial designs, etc
Duration and renewal of industrial designs
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PART VIII - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Changes in ownership
Form of licence contracts
Recording and publication of licence contracts
Rights of licensees
Rights of licensor to grant further licences and to use the invention
Surrender of patent or industrial designs
Invalidation of patent or industrial designs
Registrar to keep register
Registers of patents and industrial designs
Correction of errors
Extension of time
Publication in the Gazette
Infringement
Relief
Criminal proceedings
Legal proceedings by licensee
Burden of proof
Application of international treaties
Regulations
Administrative instructions
Repeals
Transitional provisions
SCHEDULE
SIGNED this 5th day of October, 2012.
DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA,
President.
No. 10
2012
Sierra Leone
Short title.
The Patents and Industrial Designs Act, 2012.
Being an Act to provide for the promotion of inventive and
innovative activity and facilitate the acquisition of technology through
the grant and regulation of patents and industrial designs and for
other related matters.
[
] Date of com-
ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this
present Parliament assembled.
mencement.