Act 3
Industrial Property Act
2014
“examiner” means an examiner of patents designated as
examiner of patents under the Uganda Registration
Services Bureau Act;
“exclusive licence” means a licence contract that confers on the
licensee and, where it is established expressly in it, on the
persons authorised by the licensee, the right to exploit the
licensed industrial property right to the exclusion of all
other persons, including the rights owner;
“foreign application” has the meaning given to it by section 25;
“former Office” means the Patents Office existing immediately
before the commencement of this Act;
“Harere Protocol” means the Harere Protocol on Patents and
Industrial Designs within the Framework of the African
Regional Intellectual Property Organisation;
“industrial design” has the meaning given to it in section 71;
“industrial property rights” mean rights under patents,
certificates of utility models and technovation and
registration of industrial designs issued under this Act;
“innovation” means utility models, technovation models, and
industrial designs and any other non-patentable creations or
improvements that may be taken as deserving specified
intellectual property rights;
“international bureau” means the International Bureau of the
World Intellectual Property Organisation;
“international classification” means the classification of patent
for invention, inventors certificates, utility models and
utility certificates known as the international patent
classification” as established by the Strasbourg Agreement
concerning the international patent classification of March
24th, 1971 as amended on September 28, 1979;
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