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REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA
3. Prior art shall include everything made accessible to the public anywhere in
the world, before the patent application filing or priority date, by means of an oral
or written description or any other means deemed suitable for this purpose.
4. For the purposes referred to in the preceding article, disclosure to the public
shall not be taken into consideration where it occurs within the six months
preceding the filing date or, where applicable, the priority date of the patent
application, or where it directly or indirectly arises from acts committed by the
depositor or his legitimate predecessor, or from an infringement committed by a
third party in relation to the depositor or his legitimate predecessor.
5. An invention shall be deemed to involve an inventive step where, to a person
having ordinary skill in the art, it does not obviously result from prior art.
6. An invention shall be deemed to be industrially applicable where the subject of
that invention may be used in any kind of industry, including agriculture, fishing
and handicrafts.
Article 4
(Non-patentable inventions)
The following shall not be patentable:
a) discoveries the use of which would be contrary to public policy or common
decency, public health or public safety;
b) designs that have no practical use or that cannot be industrialized by
mechanical and physical or chemical means, as well as scientific principles
and discoveries;
c) financial plans or programs, credit operations and the rules of games;
d) food and chemical-pharmaceutical products and medicines intended for
human or animal consumption, the apparatus or processes employed in
their manufacture being patentable, however.
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Article 5
(Patent application)
1. Applications for an invention patent must be drafted in the Portuguese
language and must contain the following:
a) the name or business name of the owner of the invention;
b) the nationality of the applicant, the inventor and, where applicable, the
representative, together with any other relevant information;
c) the title summarizing the subject of the invention;