Act 3
Industrial Property Act
2014
PART XIV—TECHNOVATIONS
81. Definitions.
For the purposes of this Part—
“date of the proposal” means the date on which an employee
makes a request in accordance with section 83;
“employee” and “enterprise” mean the employee and the enterprise
referred to in the definition of “technovation”, and where
several enterprises are owned or operated by one person, all
those enterprises shall be considered as one enterprise;
“technovation” means a solution to a specific problem in the
field of technology, proposed by an employee of an
enterprise in Uganda for use by that enterprise, and which
relates to the activities of the enterprise but which, on the
date of the proposal, has not been used or actively
considered for use by that enterprise;
“technovation certificate” means the document issued by the
enterprise in accordance with section 84;
“technovator” means an employee to whom the enterprise has
issued a technovation certificate
82. Right to technovation certificate.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), an employee of the enterprise on
the date of the proposal is entitled to a technovation certificate
provided for in this Part.
(2) Where the duties of an employee comprise the making and
proposing of technovations, he or she is not entitled to a technovation
certificate for any technovation which relates to the field of activities
for which he or she is employed, unless the degree of the creative
contribution inherent in the technovation exceeds that which is
normally required of an employee having those duties.
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