806 No. 40 of 2016]
Appointment
of other staff
Nonwarranty
and non
liability
Register of
Patents
Patents
(c) receive and process applications for the registration of
utility models and the granting of utility model certificates,
in accordance with this Act;
(d) act as an elected office for the purposes of an international
preliminary examination, in accordance with the Patent
Cooperation Treaty; and
(e) perform any other functions as are necessary or incidental
to the carrying out of its functions under this Act.
8. The Board shall appoint assistant registrars, such number
of examiners and other officers as may be necessary for carrying
out the provisions of this Act and who shall, subject to the control
of the Registrar, have all the powers conferred by this Act on the
Registrar.
9. An examination, investigation or any act undertaken, in
accordance with this Act, shall not warrant the validity of such
examination, investigation or act and no liability shall be incurred
by any member of the Board, Registrar, examiner or any other
officer by reason of, or in connection with, any examination,
investigation, act or other consequent proceeding.
10. (1) The Agency shall establish and maintain a Register
of Patents in which shall be entered—
(a) particulars of patents and patentees;
(b) particulars of utility models and owners of the utility model;
(c) notices of matters which are required, in accordance with
this Act, to be entered in the Register; and
(d) such other matters affecting the validity or ownership of
patents and utility models, as may be prescribed.
(2) The Register may be established in non-electronic or
electronic form or partly in electronic form.
(3) Where the Register is kept wholly or partly in electronic
form, reference in this Act to—
(a) an entry in the Register shall include reference to a record
of particulars kept in electronic form;
(b) particulars being entered in the Register shall include
references to the keeping of records in electronic form;
and
(c) the rectification of the Register shall include references
to the rectification of the record of particulars kept in
electronic form.