[ REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW CHAPTER I General Provisions Article 1 (Purpose and Scope) 1. This law is designed to protect industrial property, which comprises not only industry and commerce in the strict sense, but also agriculture and the extractive industries, as well as all natural and manufactured products. 2. Invention patents, utility models, industrial designs, production marks, trade marks and service marks, awards, establishment names and emblems and indications of origin, together with the suppression of unfair competition, shall be the subject of industrial property protection. CHAPTER II Inventions Article 2 (Patent) 1. For the purposes of this law, patent shall mean the legal title granted to protect an invention and which confers on its owner the exclusive right to exploit it. 2. Invention shall mean an inventor’s idea which makes it possible in practice to solve a particular technological problem, in relation either to a product or to a process. Article 3 (Patentable inventions) 1. An invention shall be patentable if it is new, involves an inventive step and is industrially applicable. 2. An invention that is not included in prior art shall be regarded as new.