“register" means the register referred to in section 32;
"Registrar" means the Registrar-General.
Section 42—Repeals and Savings.
(1) The Patent Law, 1992 (PNDCL 305A) is hereby repealed.
(2) Subsidiary legislation made under the law shall remain in force until revoked.
(3) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Patent Law, patents granted under the law shall
remain in force but shall be deemed to have been granted under this Act.
(4) Patents granted shall remain in force for the unexpired period of the term of
protection provided for under this Act, subject to the payment of annual maintenance fees
provided for under this Act.
(5) The Minister may make any further transitional or saving provisions which appear to
the Minister to be necessary or desirable.
SCHEDULE
Article 4
[A to I. Patents, Utility Models, Industrial Designs, Marks, Investors' Certificates: Right
of Priority.—G. Patents: Division of the application]
A. (1) Any person who has duly filed an application for a patent, or for the registration of
a utility model, or of an industrial design, or of a trademark, in one of the countries of the
Union, or his successor in title, shall enjoy, for the purpose of filing in the other
countries, a right of priority during the periods hereinafter fixed.
(2) Any filing that is equivalent to a regular national filing under the domestic legislation
of any country of the Union or under bilateral or multilateral treaties concluded between
countries of the Union shall be recognized as giving rise to the right of priority.
(3) By a regular national filing is meant any filing that is adequate to establish the date on
which the application was filed in the country concerned, whatever may be subsequent
fate of the application.