12. Directions prohibiting publication of information prejudicial to
security of Uganda.
The direction by the registrar prohibiting or restricting the publication of
information which is prejudicial to the security of Uganda or safety of
the public contained in an application shall be in Form 4.
13. Request for authority to file application abroad.
(1) A request under section 15(1) of the Act for authority to file an
application outside Uganda shall be made to the registrar in Form 5.
(2) The authority of the registrar to file an application outside
Uganda shall be in Form 6.
14. Unity of inventions.
(1) For the purposes of section 22 of the Act, a group of inventions
forms a single general inventive concept if there exists between or
among those inventions a technical relationship that involves one or
more of the same or corresponding special technical features.
(2) Where the registrar requests an applicant to restrict or divide the
application in order to comply with the unity of invention requirements
under section 22 of the Act, the request shall indicate that the applicant
may restrict or divide the application within sixty days after the date of
the request by the registrar.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation, “special technical features”
means those technical features that define a contribution that each of the
claimed inventions, considered as a whole, makes over the prior art.
15. Amendment and division of application.
(1) An application to amend an application submitted to the
registrar shall be in Form 7.
(2) An application shall not be amended more than twice.
(3) The registrar may reject an amendment if the result of the
amendment is that the specification would claim or discloses a matter
that extends beyond that disclosed in the complete filed specification.
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