Act 3 Industrial Property Act 2014 (6) After allocating a filing date, and having the invention classified according to the international classification, the registrar shall examine whether the application complies with the requirements of sections 21 (1) and (2), and the other requirements of this Act and regulations made under it and whether information requested under section 25, has been provided. (7) Within ninety days after the publication of the notice mentioned in section 29, any interested party may file with the registrar a notice of opposition. (8) The notice of opposition shall identify the opposed patent application, as well as the grounds that the opponent considers relevant to bar the grant as well as all relevant evidence. (9) The failure to meet the formal or substantive conditions of patentability in sections 9, 13 and 21 may be alleged by the opponent. (10) The registrar shall give notice of the opposition in the Gazette. (11) The applicant may within sixty days from the publication of the notice of opposition file a counter-statement. (12) The registrar may, if he or she considers fit, grant a hearing at which the patent applicant and the opponent may argue and counter-argue their case and submit additional evidence, if available, including oral evidence. (13) Subsection (1) shall apply to the inventions mentioned in section 8(2)(f) immediately after the coming into force of this Act. (14) The remaining subsections of this section as well as section 32 shall apply to the inventions mentioned in subsection (13) only after January 1, 2016; and the examination of those inventions shall apply the conditions of patentability referred to in subsection (4) as if those conditions were being applied on the date of filing in Uganda, as established under subsection (1), or where priority was claimed, the priority date of the applications. 32