The Industrial Property Act, 2001 47 (2) Where the duties of an employee comprise the making and proposing of technovations, he shall not be entitled to a technovation certificate for any technovation which pertains to the field of activities for which he is employed, unless the degree of the creative contribution inherent in the technovation exceeds that which is normally required of an employee having the said duties. (3) Where employees severally request a technovation certificate for the same technovation, the employee who is the first to make the request shall be entitled to such a certificate. (4) Where a request for a technovation certificate is made jointly by two or more employees, the certificate shall be issued in their joint names. Request 96.A request for a technovation certificate signed by the employee shall be filed in writing with the enterprise and the enterprise shall assist the employee in filing the request and shall issue a receipt to him acknowledging that a request has been filed and indicating the date on which it has been filed. Issuance or refusal of technovation certificate 97. (1) Where the requirements of this Part are satisfied, the enterprise shall, within a period of three months from the date of the proposal, issue a technovation certificate to the employee. (2)The enterprise may refuse to issue the certificate if it is of the opinion that the requirements of this Part have not been satisfied and shall notify the employee of the reasons therefor within the time limit prescribed in subsection (1). Use of technovation 98. (1) Where the enterprise issues a technovation certificate, it shall, at the same time, notify the technovator, in writing, whether or not it intends to use the technovation. (2)Where the decision to make use of the technovation depends on the testing the technovation in practice, the enterprise shall inform the technovator accordingly and may postpone the notification of its intention to use or not to use the technovation by not more than a year from the date of the proposal. (3) The technovator shall be obliged to assist the enterprise, to the best of his ability, in any testing, development or use of the technovation. (4)The enterprise shall be obliged to give adequate opportunity to the technovator to furnish the assistance referred to in subsection (3). (5) Once the technovation certificate has been issued, the technovator, shall not communicate his technovation to anyone other than the enterprise and