Act 3
Industrial Property Act
2014
(a) disclose the invention and all practicable modes, including
specification of the best mode , of carrying out the
invention known to the inventor at the filing date or, where
priority is claimed, at the priority date of the application, in
full, clear, concise and exact terms as to enable a person
who has ordinary skills in the art to make use of and to
evaluate the claimed invention; and
(b) include any drawings and relevant deposits as in the case of
micro-organisms and self-replicable material which are
essential for the understanding of the invention.
(6) Disclosure of the claimed invention shall be considered
sufficiently clear and complete if it provides information which is
sufficient to allow that invention to be made and used by a person
with who has ordinary skill in the art on the filing date, without undue
experimentation.
(7) For the purposes of assessing sufficiency of disclosure, the
disclosure contained in the description, claims and drawings, as
established on the date in which the sufficiency of disclosure was
examined, shall be taken into account.
(8) The description shall contain a clear identification of the
origin of genetic or biological resources collected in the territory of
Uganda and that were directly or indirectly used in the making of the
claimed invention as well as of any element of traditional knowledge
associated or not with those resources and that was directly or
indirectly used in the making of the claimed invention without the
prior informed consent of its individual or collective creators.
(9) For the purposes of this section, a person shall be taken as
having ordinary skill in the art if that person is a citizen of Uganda
who has studied and carries out his or her profession in Uganda, and
has acquired an average expertise and experience in the technical
field of the claimed invention.
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