INDUSTRiAL PROPERTY- NOVEMBER 1983 LAWS AND TREATIES SUDAN The Patents Regulations, 1981 * TABLE OF CONTENTS" Section Title and Entry into Force of the Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pate.nt Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Requirements for Applications and Drawings of Inventions Indications Concerning Drawil'\gS . . . . . . . . . • • . . . . Grant and Renewal of a Patent . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . Publication Fee in the Official Gazette . . . . . . . . . . . . Assignment and Transfer by Succession of Patents . . . . . Use of Foreign Languages . • • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 1 2 3 4 .s 6 7 . . . . 8 9 • . . . . • • . . . Patent Register . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . To Obtain a Copy of a Patent . • • . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . Persons Authorized to Work as Patent Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ltcensing of Patent Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grant of a Patent Application Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Correction of Written Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Request for Information Concerning the Contents of Patents . . . . . . Publication of Assignment and Transfer by Succession of Patent Applica· . . . tions Publication of Publication of Publication of Publication of . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contractual Licenses . . . . . . . . . • . . Compulsory licenses . . . . . . . . . . . Licenses of Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Surrender of a Patent . . . . . . . . . . . Publication of Decisions of Revocation and Nullity Coun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Title and Entry into Force of the Regulations) 1. These Regulations may be cited as "the Patents Regulations, 1981" and shall enter into force on the date of their signature. (Definitions) 2. ln these Regulations: (a) the words and expressions cited therein and de­ fined in the Patents Act, 19711 shalJ have the same meaning as in the said Act. (b) 14 15 16 . . 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . 18 19 20 . . 10 11 12 13 . . . • . . . 21 Taken by the . . . . . . . . . 22 . . . . . • . "the Act" means the Patents Act, 1971; "elected domicile" means the address designated in the Democratic Republic of the Sudan by a foreign applicant for a patent who has no address in the Sudan; "the Registrar" means the head of the General Ser­ vice for Commercial Registrations; "agent" means the authorized agent in accordance with Rule 12; "patent" means the patent of invention granted under Rule 6. Unless the context otherwise requires, "form" means any of the forms indicated in the Second Schedule joined to these Regulations; 2 "fees" mean the fees indicated in the Second Schedule joined to these Regulations; English title. Emry intoforce: July 8, 1981. (Patent Application) 3. Subject to the provisions of Section 12 of the Act, a patent application shall be made to the Registrar on Fonn No. 1, which is annexed to these Regulations. • Source: Communication from the Sudanese authorities. •• Added 1 by WJPO. See Industrial Propeny Laws and Treaties. SUDAN-Text 2-001. 2 The Schedules to the Regulations are not reproduced here (Edi· tor's not2). SD (Requirements for Applications and Drawings of In­ ventions) 4.-(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this Rule, the following conditions shall be observed in respect of patent applications: SUDAN- Text 2-002, pageOOl