Patents [CAP.400 35 (5) An appeal shall lie from any decision of the Registrar under this section. 34. In every order restoring a lapsed patent made under section thirty-three. there shall be inserted for the protection of persons who may have 'availed themselves of the subject-matter of the patent after a lapse of a period of three months from the date on which the renewal fee was due, the following provisions, namely, that the patentee shall not commence or prosecute any action or other pro­ ceedings or recover damages: Protective provisions to be inserted in order for restoration of patent (a) in respect of any irifringement of the patent which has taken place after the lapse of the said period and before the date of the order; (b) in respect of any use of the subject-matter of the patent at any time after the date of the order by the employment of any means or composition of matter actually made within or imported into Zambia, or in respect of any process put into operation in Zambia in infringement of the patent after the lapse of the said period and before the date of the order, or in respect of the sale, purchase or use of any article which is the product of the use of the said means, compo­ sition of matter or process: Provided that the employment of the said means. com­ position of matter or process shall be limited to the person by or for whom the said means, composition of matter or process was so made, imported or put into operation, his legal representative, his successors or assigns, or his vendees. as the case may be: (c) in respect of the employment at any time after the date of the order of any further means, composition of matter or process, being a reproduction or improvement of the means, composition of matter or process referred to in paragraph (b) or in respect of the sale, purchase or use of any article which is the product of the said further means, composition of matter or process: Provided that the employment of the said further means, composition of matter or process shall be limited to a per­ son entitled to use, as aforesaid the means, composition of matter or process specified in that paragraph. (As amended by C,N. No. 185 of 1964) 35. (I) At any time after the sealing of a patent the patentee may apply to the Registrar for the patent to be endorsed with the words "licences of right" and where such an application is made, the Registrar shall notify the application to any. person entered on the register as entitled to an interest in the patent and if satisfied, after giving any such person an opportunity to be heard, that the paten­ tee is not precluded by contract from granting licences under the Endorsement of patent "licences of right"

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