Act 3
Industrial Property Act
2014
(a) reproducing the industrial design in the manufacture of a
product;
(b) importing, offering for sale and selling a product
reproducing the protected industrial design; or
(c) stocking of that product for the purposes of offering it for
sale or selling it.
(2) The rights conferred by the registration of an industrial
design shall extend only to acts done for industrial or commercial
purposes and shall not extend to acts in respect of a product
embodying the protected industrial design after the product has been
lawfully imported or sold in Uganda.
(3) The registered owner of an industrial design has, in addition
to any other rights, remedies or actions available to him or her, the
right to institute court proceedings against any person who infringes
the industrial design by performing, without his or her consent, any
of the acts referred to in subsection (1) or who performs acts which
make it likely for infringement to occur.
(4) An industrial design registered by ARIPO by virtue of the
ARIPO Protocol and in respect of which Uganda is a designated State
has the same effect in Uganda as an industrial design registered under
this Act unless the registrar has communicated to ARIPO, in respect
of an application of it, a decision in accordance with the ARIPO
Protocol that if a registration is made by ARIPO that registration shall
have no effect in Uganda.
80. Transfer and assignment of industrial designs, licences.
(1) Rights subsisting in an industrial design may be transferred
in whole or in part.
(2) Sections 48, 49, 50, 54 and 56 apply, with the necessary
modifications, to this Part.
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