PATENTS AND DESIGNS ACT

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PATENTS AND DESIGNS ACT

CHAPTER P2 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, L.F.N. 2004

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS  

1.     Patentable inventions

2.     Right to patent

3.     Patent applications

4.     Examination of application and grant of patent

5.     Form of grant, registration and publication

6.     Rights conferred by patent

7.     Duration and lapse of patent

8.     Surrender of patent

9.     Nullity of patent

10.    Licences of right

11.    Compulsory licences and official use

 Designs

12.    Nature of industrial design

13.    Registrable designs

14.    Right to registration

15.    Applications for registration

16.    Examination of applications for registration

17.    Registration and publication

18.    Applications under sealed cover

19.    Rights conferred by registration

20.    Duration and renewal of registration

21.    Renunciation of registration

22.    Nullity of registration

General

23.    Contractual licences

24.    Assignments, transfers and joint ownership

25.    Infringement of rights

26.    Legal proceedings

27.    Foreign priority

28.    Registration: miscellaneous provisions

29.    Effect against the State

30.    Rules

31.    Repeals, and transitional and saving provisions

32.    Interpretation

33.    Short title

SCHEDULE

First Schedule — Compulsory Licences and use of patents for service of government agencies 

Second Schedule — Transitional and saving provisions

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATIONS

1.     Patents and Designs (Convention Countries) Order

2.     Patents Rules  

3.     Designs Rules

4.     Patents and Designs (Additional Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order

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PATENTS AND DESIGNS ACT   

An Act to make comprehensive provisions for the registration and proprietorship of Patents and Designs in Nigeria and other matter ancillary thereto.

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[Commencement]       [1^st December 1971]

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