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Industrial Property Act
2014
(3) A licensee may, within the prescribed time limit, object to the
entry requested under subsection (1) on the ground that the owner of
the patent is, by the relevant licence contract, precluded from granting
further licences.
(4) Where the registrar receives no objection under subsection (3) or
considers all objections made to be unfounded, the registrar shall make the
requested entry in the register and shall publish the entry.
(5) Where a patent is the subject of an entry under this section,
a person may require the owner of the patent to grant him or her a
non-exclusive licence under the patent on terms which, in the absence
of an agreement between the parties, shall be fixed by the court.
(6) The amount of the annual fees with respect to a patent, which
is the subject of an entry under this section, that falls due after the
date of the entry, shall be reduced by half.
(7) The owner of the patent may at any time request the registrar
to cancel an entry under this section and the registrar shall cancel the
entry after payment by the owner of the balance of all annual fees
which would have been payable if no entry had been made and the
registrar shall publish the cancellation of any entry under this section.
(8) Section 63(3) shall apply, with the necessary modifications,
where the terms of a licence granted under subsection (5) have been
fixed by the court.
PART XI—EXPLOITATION OF PATENTED INVENTIONS BY THE
GOVERNMENT OR BY THIRD PARTIES AUTHORISED BY THE GOVERNMENT
66. Exploitation of patented inventions by the Government or by
third parties authorised by the Government.
(1) Subject to this section, where—
(a) the public interest, in particular, national security, nutrition,
health, environmental conservation, national emergency or
the development of other vital sectors of the national
economy requires; or
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