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Patents
(c)the procedure to be followed in connection with any
application or request to the Registrar or any proceeding
before the Registrar;
(d) the provision of copies of any documents registered in the
Register and the certification of such copies;
(e) the making of searches on the Register, including the times
when, and the manner in which, the searches may be
made;
(f) the service of notices and other documents with respect
to the Register; or
(g) any matter required to be provided for in relation to the
Register.
Industrial
Property
Journal
14. (1) The Registrar shall arrange for the periodic publication
of an Industrial Property Journal on patents and utility models that
are protected in accordance with this Act and any matter which
the Registrar may consider desirable relating to such matters.
(2) The Registrar may sell copies of the Industrial Property
Journal at such price and in such manner as the Board may approve.
Conditions
for
patenting of
invention
and
protection
Nonpatentable
subject
matter
PART III
PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS
15. (1) Subject to section seventeen, a patent may be granted
for an invention which satisfies the following conditions:
(a) it is new;
(b) it involves an inventive step; and
(c) it is capable of industrial application.
(2) A patent granted, which satisfies the conditions specified
in subsection (1) and this Act shall be protected for the period
specified in section sixty-five.
16. The following inventions shall not be patentable:
(a) discoveries, scientific theories or mathematical methods;
(b) schemes, rules or methods for doing business, performing
purely mental acts or playing games or doing business;
(c) literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or any other
artistic creation;
(d) presentation of information; and
(e) computer programmes.