CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VA
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
Powers and Duties of Registrar and Commissioner
(sections 15 to 19).
Patent Agents and Patent Attorneys
(sections 20 to 24).
Applications for Patents
(sections 25 to 43).
International Applications under the Patent Cooperation
Treaty
(sections 43A to 43F).
Grant, Duration and Effect of Patents
(sections 44 to 49).
Corrections and Amendments
(sections 50 to 52).
Licences
(sections 53 to 58).
Assignment, Attachment and Hypothecation of Patents
and Applications for Patents
(sections 59 and 60).
Revocation of Patents
(sections 61 to 64).
Infringement
(sections 65 to 71).
Evidence
(sections 72 to 74).
Appeals to Commissioner and the Court
(sections 75 to 77).
Acquisition of Rights to Inventions and Patents by the
State
(sections 78 to 80).
Offences and Penalties
(sections 81 to 85).
Miscellaneous
(sections 86 to 96).
[S. 1 amended by s. 26 of Act No. 38 of 1997.]
2.
Definitions.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise indicates—
“agent” means, except in section 56 (2) (e), a patent agent or a patent
attorney mentioned in section 20 or an attorney mentioned in section 22;
“applicant” includes the legal representative of a deceased applicant or of
an applicant who is a person under legal disability;
“application in a convention country” means—
(a)
any application for a patent lodged in a convention country;
(b)
any application for a utility model lodged in a convention country; or
(c)
any application for an inventor’s certificate lodged in a convention
country in which applicants have the right to apply, at their option,
either for a patent or for an inventor’s certificate in respect of the
invention in question;
“commissioner” means a commissioner of patents designated in terms of
section 8;
“convention application” means an application for a patent made in the
Republic which claims priority from a relevant application in a convention
country;
“convention country”, in relation to any provision of this Act, means any
country, including any group of countries and any territory for whose
international relations another country is responsible, which the President has