PART III—THE INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY JOURNAL
5.

The Industrial Property Journal.
(1) The registrar shall publish a journal known as “The Industrial
Property Journal”.
(2) The Journal shall contain reports of cases relating to industrial
property rights whether in Uganda or elsewhere and any other
information relating to industrial property or contained in the register of
industrial property that the registrar considers necessary.
(3) The Journal shall be published monthly or at such other time as
the registrar may direct.
(4) The registrar may offer the Journal to the public at a fee
determined by the Bureau.
PART IV—PATENTS
Application, grant and refusal of patent
6.

Application for a patent.
(1) An application for a patent shall be made to the registrar in
Form 2 in the Schedule.
(2) Every application shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
(3) The description of the invention under section 21(1)(b) of the
Act shall—
(a) specify the technical field to which the invention relates;
(b) indicate the background art which, as far as it is known to the
applicant, can be regarded as useful for the understanding,
searching and examination of the invention and cite the
documents reflecting such art; and
(c) indicate how the invention is industrially applicable.
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