[CAP. 400
Patents
CHAPTER 400
PATENTS
An Act to make provision relating to patents for inventions and
. for other purposes incidental thereto.
[I st April, 1958]
PART I
PRELIMINARY
I.
Federal Acts
13 of 1957
12 of 1959
36 of 1960
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Act No. 26
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Act No. III
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Act No. 1:\
of 1994
Government
Notices
185 o{ 1964
497 of 1964
Statutorv
Instrument
175 of 1965
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Patents Act.
2. (I) In this Act. unless the context otherwise requiresI
"applicant" includes a person in whose favour a direction has been
given undersection twenty-three. or his legal representative;
"article" includes any substance or material. and any equipment.
machinery or apparatus. whether affixed to land or not;
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"assignee" means
,
(a) the person who has derived his title to the invention
for Zambia directly or indirectly from the inventor
thereof or from the latter's assignee; or
(h) the legal representative of such person;
"Convention" means the Union Convention of Paris, dated the
20th March. 1883. for the Protection of Industrial Property,
revised at Brussels on the 14th December, 1900. at
Washington on the 2nd June. 1911, at The Hague on the 6th
November, 1925. and at London on the 2nd June, 1934, and
any revision thereof to which the *former Federation of
Rhodesia and Nyasaland or the former Protectorate of
Northern Rhodesia may have acceded or to which the
**Rcpublic may accede in terms of section seven;
"convention application" means an application made by a per
son referred to in paragraph (c) of section eleven;
"convention country", in relation to any provision of this Act.
means a country (including any colony, protectorate or ter
ritory subject to the authority or under the suzerainty of that
country. or any territory over which a mandate or trustee
ship is exercised) which the Minister has, with a view to the
fulfilment of the provisions of the Convention. by statutory
r"!otice. declared to be a convention country;
• Acceded with effect from 15t April, 1958. (F.G.N. No. 39 of 1958.)
•• Acceded with effect from 24th October. 1964. (G.N. No. 1751 of 1965.)
Interpretation
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