Negarit Gazeta -
No. 25 -
lOth May 1995 -
Page 217
2. Definitions
In this Proclamation, unless
the sontext
otherwise re
quires:
1.
"Court" means the Central High Court.
2.
"Industrial Design" means any composition of lines
or colours or any three dimensional form whether or
not associated with lines or colours, provided that such
composition or form gives a special appearance to a
product of industry or handicraft and can serve as a
pattern 'for a produet of industry or handicraft.
3.
"Invention"
means an. idea of an
inventor
which
permits in practice the soltuion to a specific problem
in the field of technology.
4.
"Commission" means the
Ethiopian
Science
and
Technology Commission.
5.
"Patent" means the title granted to protect
inven
-rionsr fhemvention -may-relafe-w a product cra' pro
cess.
6.
"Patentee" means the owner of a patent or patent of
introduction .•
7.
"Person" means physical or juridical person.
B.
"Utility Model Certificate" means a certificate issued
to a minor invention which is fit for practical use.
9.
"Working of a
Patented
Invention"
means
the
manufacture of a patented article or the application
of a patented process, by an
effective
and serious
establishment existing within Ethiopia.
CHAPTER TWO
PATENTS
Section 1
General
3, Patentable [mlentions
1. An invention is patentable if it is new,
involves an
inventive step and is industrially applicable.
2.
An invention shall be considered new if it is not an
ticipated hy prior art. Prior art shall consist of every
thing disclosed to the public, any where in the world,
by publieanon in tangible form or by oral disclosure,
by use or in any other
way,
prior to the filling or,
where appropriate" the priority date, of the applica
tion claiming the mverrtiori.
3.
Notwithstanding
the
prOVIsIons of
sub-article
(2) of
this article the disclosure to the public of the inven
tion shall not be taken into consideration if it occur
red within 12 months preceding the filling date or.
where al,plicable, tile priority date, of the application.
and if it was by reason or in consequence of acts
committed bv the applicant or his predecessor ill
title or an ab~e commitlted hy a third party with reo
gard to the applicant or his predecessor ill title.