The Industrial Property Act, 2001
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this Act;
“Industrial Property Journal” means a journal published by the In stitute
mainly for the purpose of advertising industrial property applications and for
publishing other matters required to be published under the Act;
“Innovation” means utility models, technovation models, and industrial
designs and any other non-patentable creations or improvements that may be
deemed as deserving specified industrial property rights;
“Institute” means the Kenya Industrial Property Institute established under
section 3;
“International Bureau” means the International Bureau of the World
Intellectual Property Organization established by the convention signed at
Stockholm on 14th July, 1967;
“International classification” as regards industrial designs, means
classification in accordance with the Locarno Agreement of October, 1968,
establishing an international classification for industrial designs;
“Invention” means a new and useful art (whether producing a physical effect
or not), process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter which is
not obvious, or any new and useful improvement thereof which is not
obvious, capable of being used or applied in trade or industry and includes
an alleged invention;
“Inventor” means the person who actually devises the invention as defined
in section 21 and includes the legal representative of the inventor;
“Licence contract” means a contract or agreement by which a person grants
permission to use his industrial property rights;
“Licensee” means a licensee under a contract registered or deemed to have
been registered under this Act;
“Licensor” means a party to the licence contract who grants the permission;
“Managing Director” means the Managing Director of the Institute
appointed under section 11;
“Minister” means the Minister for the time being responsible for matters
relating to the Institute;
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“National Council for Science and Technology” means the Council
established by section 3 of the Science and Technology Act,
“Paris Convention” means the Paris Convention for the Protection of
Industrial Property, of 20th March, 1883, as last revised;
“Patent Co-operation Treaty” means the treaty of that name signed at