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Industrial Property Act
2014
107. Exemption from stamp duty.
No duty shall be chargeable under the Stamps Act in respect of any
instrument executed by, or on behalf of, or in favour of the registrar
which, but for this section, the registrar would be liable to pay.
108. Consequential amendment of Cap. 210.
The Uganda Registration Services Bureau Act is amended in item 11
of the First Schedule, by substituting for the reference to the Patent
Act the words “Industrial Property Act, 2009”.
109. Repeal of Cap. 216 and Cap. 218, transitional and savings
provisions.
(1) The Patents Act and the United Kingdom Designs Protection
Act are repealed.
(2) Where a patent was registered in Uganda under the former
patent Act or where it was saved under that Act and the privileges and
rights conferred by the registration were effective immediately before
the commencement of this Act, then, subject to this section—
(a) the patent shall be treated in Uganda as if it had been
granted under this Act;
(b) the patent shall expire as regards Uganda when those
privileges and rights could have expired if this Act had not
been enacted;
(c) the patent may be revoked or invalidated only where those
privileges and rights could be declared as not having been
acquired in Uganda if this Act had not been enacted;
(d) the certificate of registration, or a certified copy of the
patent, shall be admissible as prima facie evidence of the
date and the fact of registration; and
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