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Industrial Property Act
2014
22. Unity of inventions.
(1) The application shall relate to one invention only or to a
group of inventions so linked as to form a single general inventive
concept.
(2) The regulations shall contain rules concerning compliance
with the requirements of unity of invention under subsection (1).
(3) The fact that a patent has been granted on an application that
did not comply with the requirements of unity of invention shall not
be a ground for the invalidation or revocation of the patent.
23. Amendment and division of application.
(1) The applicant may amend the application, but the
amendment shall not go beyond the substance of the disclosure made
by the applicant in the initial application.
(2) The applicant may divide the initial application into one or
more applications, in this Act referred to in this Act as “divisional
applications” but each divisional application shall not go beyond the
disclosure made in the initial application.
(3) Each divisional application is entitled to a filing date and
where appropriate, the priority date of the initial application.
24. Right of priority.
(1) The application may contain a declaration claiming the
priority, as provided for in the Paris Convention, of one or more
earlier national or regional applications filed by the applicant or his
or her predecessor in title in or for any State party to that Convention
and any Member of the World Trade Organization.
(2) Where the application is filed in Uganda before the expiration of
the periods referred to in subsection (1), the application shall not be
invalidated by reason of an act accomplished in the interval, in particular,
another filing, the publication or exploitation of the invention, and those
acts shall not give rise to any third-party right or any right of personal
possession.
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