(a) a request made by the applicant to the Secretariat of ARIPO
that the application be treated, in Uganda, as an application
under the Act; and
(b) a copy of the files relating to the application.
(2) A request to have a regional application treated as an application
under the Act shall be in Form 15.
(3) The date of filing, for the purposes of the treatment of a regional
application as a national application, shall be the date of filing of the
regional application under the Harare Protocol.
33. Publication of certain international applications.
(1) The registrar shall publish—
(a) an international application in which Uganda is designated
within sixty days after the application enters the national
phase; and
(b) a regional application in which Uganda is designated within
thirty days after Uganda is notified of being designated in the
regional application under the Harare Protocol.
(2) The publication of an application under subregulation (1) shall
be in the Gazette.
Rights and obligations of the applicant or the owner of the invention
34. Parallel importation.
The limitation on the rights under a patent in section 43(2) of the Act
applies to acts in respect of articles that are imported from a country
where the articles were legitimately put on the market.
35. Annual fees.
(1) The annual fees shall be payable after one year from the date of
filing of the application for the patent.
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