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Industrial Property Act
2014
(6) After allocating a filing date, and having the invention
classified according to the international classification, the registrar
shall examine whether the application complies with the requirements
of sections 21 (1) and (2), and the other requirements of this Act and
regulations made under it and whether information requested under
section 25, has been provided.
(7) Within ninety days after the publication of the notice
mentioned in section 29, any interested party may file with the
registrar a notice of opposition.
(8) The notice of opposition shall identify the opposed patent
application, as well as the grounds that the opponent considers
relevant to bar the grant as well as all relevant evidence.
(9) The failure to meet the formal or substantive conditions of
patentability in sections 9, 13 and 21 may be alleged by the opponent.
(10) The registrar shall give notice of the opposition in the
Gazette.
(11) The applicant may within sixty days from the publication of
the notice of opposition file a counter-statement.
(12) The registrar may, if he or she considers fit, grant a hearing
at which the patent applicant and the opponent may argue and
counter-argue their case and submit additional evidence, if available,
including oral evidence.
(13) Subsection (1) shall apply to the inventions mentioned in
section 8(2)(f) immediately after the coming into force of this Act.
(14) The remaining subsections of this section as well as section 32
shall apply to the inventions mentioned in subsection (13) only after
January 1, 2016; and the examination of those inventions shall apply the
conditions of patentability referred to in subsection (4) as if those
conditions were being applied on the date of filing in Uganda, as
established under subsection (1), or where priority was claimed, the
priority date of the applications.
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