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Section 30 Patents and Designs Act 1971 Section 30 of the Patents and Designs Act 1971 is about Rules. It is under ‘General’ of the Act. It provides as follows: (1) The Minister may make rules-(a) prescribing anything requiring to be prescribed for the purposes of this Act(including summary forms of notification of the grant…
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Section 29 Patents and Designs Act 1971 Section 29 of the Patents and Designs Act 1971 is about Effect against the State. It is under ‘General’ of the Act. It provides as follows: Subject to Part 11 of the First Schedule to this Act, a patent or registered design shall have the same effect against…
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Section 28 Patents and Designs Act 1971 Section 28 of the Patents and Designs Act 1971 is about Registration: miscellaneous provisions. It is under ‘General’ of the Act. It provides as follows: (1) There shall be a registrar of patents and designs, who shall be appointed by theFederal Civil Service Commission. (2) The registrar may…
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Section 27 Patents and Designs Act 1971 Section 27 of the Patents and Designs Act 1971 is about Foreign priority. It is under ‘General’ of the Act. It provides as follows: (1) The Minister may, with a view to the fulfilment of a treaty, convention or otherinternational arrangement or agreement to which Nigeria is a…
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Section 26 Patents and Designs Act 1971 Section 26 of the Patents and Designs Act 1971 is about Legal proceedings. It is under ‘General’ of the Act. It provides as follows: (1) Jurisdiction to hear and dispose of legal proceedings under this Act is herebyvested in the Federal High Court and, subject to this Act,…
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Section 25 Patents and Designs Act 1971 Section 25 of the Patents and Designs Act 1971 is about Infringement of rights. It is under ‘General’ of the Act. It provides as follows: (1) The rights of a patentee or design owner are infringed if another person, without the licence of the patentee or design owner,…
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Section 24 Patents and Designs Act 1971 Section 24 of the Patents and Designs Act 1971 is about Assignments, transfers and joint ownership. It is under ‘General’ of the Act. It provides as follows: (1) Subject tO this section, a person’s rights in a patent application, in an application for the registration of a design,…
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Section 23 Patents and Designs Act 1971 Section 23 of the Patents and Designs Act 1971 is about Contractual licences. It is under ‘General’ of the Act. It provides as follows: (1) Subject to this section–(a) a patentee or design owner may by a written contract signed by the partiesgrant a licence to any person…
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Section 22 Patents and Designs Act 1971 Section 22 of the Patents and Designs Act 1971 is about Nullity of registration. It is under ‘Designs’ of the Act. It provides as follows: (1) Subject to this section, on the application of any person (including a publ ic officer acting in the exercise of his functions)…
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Section 21 Patents and Designs Act 1971 Section 21 of the Patents and Designs Act 1971 is about Renunciation of registration. It is under ‘Designs’ of the Act. It provides as follows: (1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the registered owner of an industrial design may renounce the registration by a written declaration…