Title: | Sections 26- 27 of the Patents Act No. 23 of 2003 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Utility models |
Summary table: |
26. (1) Subject to section 27, the provisions of this Applicability of Act shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to utility model certificates or applications therefor as the case may be.
(2) Where the right to a patent conflicts with the right to a utility model certificate in the case referred to in section 4(3), the said provision shall apply as if the word "patent" were replaced by the words "patent or utility model certificate."
27. (1) An invention qualifies for a utility model certificate if it is new and is industrially applicable. relating to utility model certificates.
(2) Section 3 (1) and (5) shall not apply in the case of inventions for which utility model certificates are requested.