relate to patents matters; to provide information on patented technology so as to facilitate transfer and acquisition of technology by the United Republic; (f) to perform such other functions as are necessary for the furtherance of the objects of this Act. 6. Patents Register (1) The Registrar shall maintain a register in which he shall record all matters required to be registered under this Act. (2) Any person may on request consult the Patents Register and may take extracts from it on payment of a prescribed fee. (3) The details concerning the register shall be prescribed by regulations. (e) PART III PATENTABILITY (ss 7-13) 7. Definition (1) For the purposes of this Act, "invention" means a solution to a specific problem in the field of technology and may relate to a product or process. (2) The following shall not be regarded as inventions within the meaning of subsection (1)– (a) discoveries, and scientific and mathematical theories; (b) plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals, other than microbiological and the products of such processes; (c) schemes, rules or methods for doing business, performing purely mental acts or playing games; (d) methods for the treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy, as well as diagnostic methods; but shall not apply to products for use in any of those methods; (e) more presentation of information. 8. Patentable inventions An invention is patentable if it is new, involves an inventive step and is industrially applicable. 9. Novelty (1) An invention is new if it is not anticipated by prior art. (2) Everything made available to the public anywhere in the world by means of written disclosure (including drawings and other illustrations) or by oral disclosure, use, exhibition or other non-written means shall be considered prior art provided that such making available occurred before the date of the filing of the application, of priority is claimed, before the priority date, validly claimed in respect thereof. (3) For the sole purpose of the evaluation of novelty, an application for the grant of a patent or a utility certificate in the United Republic shall be considered to have been comprised in the prior art as from the filing date of such application or, if priority is claimed, as from the date of its validly claimed priority, to the extent to which its contents are available, or is later made available, to the public in accordance with this Act or in accordance with the Patent Co-operation Treaty. (4) A disclosure of the invention shall not be taken into consideration if it occurs not earlier than six months before the filing date or, where applicable the priority date of the application and if it was by reason or in consequence of– (a) the fact that the applicant or his predecessor in title displayed; or (b) an evidence of abuse in relation to the applicant or his predecessor in title.