5.
(1) A patent shall be granted by the issue to the patentee of a document containing(a) the number of the patent in the order of grant;
(b) the name and address of the patentee and, if that address is outside Nigeria, an address for service in
Nigeria;
(c) the dates of the patent application and the grant;
(d) if foreign priority is claimed(i) an indication of the fact, and
(ii) the number and date of the application on which the claim is based and the name of the country
where it was made;
(e) the description of the invention (with any relevant plans and drawings) and the claims; and
(f) where appropriate, the name and address of the true inventor.
(2) The Registrar shall maintain a Register of Patents which shall consist of duplicates of the documents
issued under subsection ( 1 ) of this section, together with such further matter as is required by this Act
to be registered.
(3) As soon as may be after a patent has been granted subsection (1) of this section, the Registrar shall to be
published(a) a notification of the grant containing the details mentioned in paragraphs to (f) of that subsection
(except the description and the plans and drawings, if any); or
(b) if a summary form of notification is prescribed, a notification in that form.
6. (1) A patent confers upon the patentee the right to preclude any other person from doing any of the
following acts(a) where the patent has been granted in respect of a product, the act of making, importing, selling or
using the product, or stocking it for the purpose of sale or use; and
(b) where the patent has been granted in respect of a process, the act of applying the process or doing, in
respect of a product obtained directly by means of the process, any of the acts mentioned in
paragraph (a) of this subsection.
(2) The scope of the protection conferred by a patent shall be determined by the terms of the claims; and the
description (and the plans and drawings, if any) included in the patent shall be used to interpret the
claims.
(3) The rights under a patent(a) shall extend only to acts done for industrial or commercial purposes; and
(b) shall not extend to acts done in respect of a product covered by the patent after the product has been
lawfully sold in Nigeria, except in so far as the patent makes provision for a special application of
the product, in which case the special application shall continue to be reserved to the patentee
notwithstanding this paragraph,
(4) Where, at the date of the filing of a patent application in respect of a product or process or at the date of a
foreign priority validly claimed in respect of the application, a person other than the applicant(a) was conducting an undertaking in Nigeria; and