(3) An application for a patent may be made under subsection (1) or (2) by the legal
representative of—
(a)
a deceased person who, immediately before his death, was entitled to
make such an application; or
(b)
a person under disability who, had it not been for such disability,
would himself have been entitled to make such application.
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Form of application
(1) An application for a patent shall—
(a)
be made in the prescribed form; and
(b)
be lodged at the Patent Office in the prescribed manner; and
(c)
state an address for service in Zimbabwe to which all notices and
communications may be sent; and
(d)
in so far as they are not already stated for the purposes of paragraph
(c), state the full postal, residential and business addresses of the applicant.
(2) An assignee or legal representative making or joining in an application shall
furnish such proof of title or authority as the Registrar may require or as may be
prescribed.
(3) An application form shall—
(a)
state that the applicant owns the invention in respect of Zimbabwe;
and
(b)
give the full name of the inventor; and
(c)
where the inventor is not the applicant or one of the applicants,
contain a declaration that the applicant believes him to be the inventor.
(4) A Convention application, in addition to the requirements set out in subsection
(3), shall state—
(a)
the Convention country in which such application for protection was
made; and
(b)
the number of such application; and
(c)
the effective date of such application; and
(d)
in which respect the applicant in the Convention country and in
Zimbabwe qualifies.
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Complete and provisional specifications
(1) An application for a patent—
(a)
which is not a Convention application, shall be accompanied by either
a complete specification or a provisional specification;
(b)
which is a Convention application, shall be accompanied by a
complete specification.
(2) Subject to this section, where an application referred to in paragraph (a) of
subsection (1) is accompanied by a provisional specification a complete specification
shall be lodged within twelve months from the date that the application was lodged
and if the complete specification is not so lodged the application shall be deemed to
be abandoned:
Provided that the complete specification may be lodged at any time after the
expiration of the twelve months but within fifteen months from the date the
application was lodged if a request to that effect is made to the Registrar and the
prescribed fee is paid on or before the date on which the complete specification is
lodged.
(3) Where two or more applications accompanied by provisional specifications have
been lodged in respect of matters which are cognate or of which one is a modification
of another, a single complete specification may, subject to this section and section
nine, be lodged in pursuance of those applications or, if more than one complete
specification has been lodged, may, with the leave of the Registrar, be proceeded with
in respect of those applications.
(4) Where applications for protection have been made in one or more Convention
countries in respect of two or more matters which are cognate or of which one is a